The Daily Spin II

PNAU | Changa

Welcome back to the Daily Spin. For the uninitiated, this is the series in which I review an album every day of 2025.

As was the case two years ago, my favorite song from each album can be found at the playlist linked here.

Album: Changa (2017)

Artist: PNAU

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A little taste of the past comes forth with Changa, a future-house album from 2017 that takes so much of what I loved about electronica back then and springs it forth into life.

Featuring Kira Divine on no fewer than seven of the twelve tracks, this is chock-full of Euro-style dance pop with fringe elements of trance and future bass to fill in the edges. It’s a sound that, five albums in, PNAU have managed to evolve and shift to keep relevant, impressive in an ever-shifting landscape like that of Australian electronica.

And yet, I find myself bored by this album - there’s only so many ways you can serve the same dish without the flourish getting pretty stale pretty quickly. As you move through the second half of the album, the cracks really start to show, honestly - the best parts of it are limited heavily because this is your tenth time hearing it, and the variance just isn’t there.

It’s a great summertime show, but there’s not much depth beyond that.

Rating: 6/10

Best Tracks: In My Head

Worst Tracks: Please Forgive Me