Some of the tracks really touches me, as there is always a melodic part in my own taste for music. There is not much producers in the scene (as far as I know) who is in focus with this kind of melody-oriented sound. It does not match so well with the definition of trance, but some tracks is well-produced in the house or chill perspective.
I agree with the crisp beatwork stuff discussed above, the rhythm is so subtle that I can't actually dance to it even in some housey tracks. But for those tracks, melody plays a larger part when I listen to these tracks. And as a newcomer of trance music, I think crisp and clear sound can also create enough warmth, and sometimes I would even criticize a (recent) track being too blurry and not "clear" enough.
In terms of individual tracks,
1) I love "The Sleepless Year" the best with a 8/10.
2) The pair "Prologue" and "Epilogue" is a perfect starter (or I may say intro?) and callback for the album, with Prologue being 9/8 (time signature) and Epilogue back to 4/4. They are 7.5/10 in my perspective.
3) After that comes the title track "Trampolines" with a pretty well-crafted rhythm, also 7.5/10.
4) The Disco Citizens Remix of "Freefall" is really dynamic, and I can get a glimpse of his older style from this version, 7/10.
5) "Day One" can actually be considered as a new version of Chicane's very first track "Disco Citizens - Right Here Right Now", but I'm not a big fan of "Day One", I may rate 5.5/10 for this.
6) "Love, Love, Love - Here I Come" is a cover of the Rollo Goes Mystic track by the same name. I prefer the original one though. The Chicane version is 6/10.
The other tracks are not bad, but not as outstanding or memorable as the tracks I mentioned before. Some being too soft and some being a bit generic. But I would give every track no less than 5pts out of 10.
In total, this album is one of my favorite of 2024.
This may tie with Ferry's album, but Ferry's "Fulfillment" is too awesome (8.5/10), so Ferry's album may be better.
