I am kind of in love with Quantic. The music is classy, rich, and lovely while maintaining a danceable grooviness. Will Holland—the DJ, producer, and multi-instrumentalist (guitar, bass, double bass, piano, organ, saxophone, accordion, percussion) who leads the project—draws on elements of funk, jazz, soul, cumbia, salsa, bossa nova (the latter three likely from the seven years he lived Colombia before relocating to NYC), plus some trip-hop, lounge music, and electro. It’s bright and heady and fun, but also feels like what you might hear at a late-night cannabis lounge in Amsterdam. The prolific artist’s new album, Atlantic Oscillations, was recorded with all live musicians, has a vague, pleasant disco feel in songs like “September Blues” (although “Motivic Retrograde” feels straight out of West Africa), and is just as sublime as I’ve come to expect from Quantic. by Leilani Polk