RSAI’s new single, “Let The Good Times Roll,” has waltzed into my listening rotation, and honestly, it feels a bit like finding an unexpected party already in full swing in your own living room. This Moscow-based musician seems intent on manufacturing pure, unadulterated joy, the kind that fizzes up from your toes and demands a bit of a shimmy, whether you’re ready for it or not. It’s disarmingly direct, this call to the present.
The track champions this idea of a collective, almost sacred, immersion in the now. We’re talking about a space where inhibitions are shed like winter coats in a sudden heatwave. It evokes a feeling less of a specific place, and more of… you know that sudden, shared glance with a stranger when something wonderfully absurd happens? That. Multiplied by a dance floor. RSAI taps into that desire to simply be, without the clutter of yesterday’s worries or tomorrow’s anxieties, a feeling as potent and fleeting as the scent of night-blooming jasmine suddenly caught on the breeze.
Musically, it’s a bright confection of disco, pop, and dance that doesn’t so much invite you to move as it gently, persuasively, pushes you onto the floor. There’s an earnestness to its simplicity, a clear-eyed mission to elevate. RSAI seems less interested in thorny complexities and more focused, perhaps even fearlessly so, on ensuring this particular wheel spins with maximum, unironic delight.
And the tune does stick. Not in an earwormy, annoying way, but more like the lingering warmth after a good, hearty laugh. This abandonment of past burdens it speaks of… it’s a peculiar kind of liberation, like finally taking off a very tight hat you didn’t realise you were wearing all day, only to find your hair has adopted a rather surprising new shape. There’s a sweet relief in its unburdened euphoria.
Does “Let The Good Times Roll” manage to bottle that lightning of a perfect, unscripted moment? Perhaps the real magic is that it makes you want to believe it can.
