Movement makes bedroom music that can also move a dance floor

For all the artists making sexually charged and sonically progressive R&B today, there’s usually been one catch - it’s music for the bedroom, not the nightclub. Maybe “2 On” can turn your party up, but most of the work being done by FKA Twigs, Kelela, Tinashe, Arca and others is meant to be isolating and overpowering, and not meant for a dance floor.

The Sydney trio Movement, however, has hit a perfect chord between the sonics of narcotic body music and the demands of a club crowd that’s out to find someone to share it with.

A track like “Ivory” has the doomed sub-bass, foggy synth samples and pitch-affected vocals that define this moment in music, but with the populist foresight to put a subtle four-on-the-floor kick and a ringing house piano in the chorus. It creeps along right at 88 BPM, too slow to be disco but hovering right at the edge of danceability.

If you need to see visual evidence of what the tune will do to a packed club or a late-night afterparty, go to the Vimeo website to see a lovely video (with much nudity) of the song.

The rest of their self-titled EP for the Aussie electronic imprint Modular (Cut Copy, Tame Impala) dips into trip hop breakbeats (“Like Lust”) and slow soul grooves that sound like Prince drowning in a well (“5:57”), but never loses that deep-water reverb and androgynous lust.

It’s one of the most promising debuts from the front lines of this scene -- where artists make bedroom music that evokes all our real hopes for the night -- and to discover someone enticing and new.

Movement plays three L.A. shows this week: two opening for Banks at Wiltern on Tuesday and Wednesday, and a headline show at the Satellite on Thursday. Go to one and bring someone home with you.

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