The producer’s third studio album is a love letter to dance music at its purest. Almost immediately after the runaway success of his 2012 breakout single “Harlem Shake”—the free SoundCloud loosie turned viral dance trend—the producer born Harry Bauer Rodrigues sought to escape from its shadow. Fourteen years later, the hysteria seems quaint and the self-taught studio nerd is mining more nostalgic territory. Baauer’s third studio album, U, is an ode to the music he fell in love with as a teenager in London that plays out like a forgotten Radio 1 Essential Mix from the turn of the century. Executive-produced by Hudson Mohawke (fellow survivor of the early-2010s trap subgenre), its 16 tracks blend seamlessly in a euphoric, sample-delic blur of Eurodisco, piano house, and bloghouse with the odd echo of electroclash, Ibiza house, and Baltimore club. UK grime meets French touch on “Gravity/Chaos Flow,” while “One Last Time” recruits Aluna and Brazy for a strobe-lit soccer stadium banger. The result is a love letter to dance music at its purest—because, as the sample states on “Nothing’s Ever Real,” “music can make me feel things in my body that words can’t.”