New York City’s Escort make disco that sounds more like 1979 than 2019. That being said, their new City Life is about as solid a straightforward, throwback disco album (with light dub and house undertones) as you’ll find this year. If you desire swanky, breezy dance music with great, non-Auto-Tuned female vocals, Escort have you covered… in a champagne-soaked gold lamé jumpsuit. That they enlisted R&B diva Fonda Rae (Don Armando’s Second Avenue Band, King Creole and the Coconuts) and Brian Jackson (Gil Scott-Heron) to add vocal and flute vibrancy to the proceedings, respectively, shows you how savvy and well-connected Escort are. by Dave Segal