“Shinin” [ft. Grace Hall]

With the exception of last year’s three song EP Windings, a handful of one-off singles/remixes, and a strange detour into formless prog rock with Todd Rundgren and Emil Nikolaisen, Hans-Peter Lindstrøm has of late maintained a relatively low profile: His upcoming album, It's Alright Between Us As It Is, will be his first in five years. On lead single “Shinin,” he re-enlists Skin Town’s Grace Hall (with whom he collaborated on 2015’s thumping “Home Tonight”) for a shivery tune that’s an entirely worthy addition to Lindstrøm’s canon of great space disco singles.

Deploying a minimum amount of chord changes, and gliding along just a few ticks above mid-tempo, “Shinin” isn’t as showy as some of Lindstrøm’s instrumental pieces, but it easily retains the trademark pulsing quality that defines his best moments. Whereas Hall’s role in “Home Tonight” was closer to house diva, here she takes a more nuanced tack, meeting the starry-eyed production with an array of subtle vocal hooks that become stickier with each listen. Lindstrøm and Hall’s output isn’t as immediate or as combustible as that of Lindstrøm & Christabelle, but their partnership is capable of creating moments of genuine inspiration; at one point near the track’s final stretch, they weave in a sort of ululating vocal loop that sounds like Hall singing an arpeggiation. It’s unconventional and wonky, but set against the backdrop of Lindstrøm’s sheeny production, it totally works, and injects just the right amount of weirdness into this otherwise crystalline track.