Like a mixologist in the planet's coolest cocktail lounge, Kindness (a.k.a. Adam Bainbridge) blends splashes of pop sweetness with chilled beats and tangy funk guitars to create a sonic blend at once familiar and freshly potent. World, You Need a Change of Mind finds this London studio mastermind playfully exploring his obsessive love for ‘80s-era music modes. Subversive strains run through these tracks, heard in the narcotic dreaminess of “Anyone Can Fall in Love” (a radical reworking of the theme from the BBC TV series EastEnders) and the disembodied glide of “Swingin’ Party” (a Replacements cover). Kindness makes sure the basics are solid: the bass lines pop, the synths swirl, and the vocals flow like slow-poured honey. While laying down the grooves with studied precision, Bainbridge teases the mind with erotic rambles (“SEOD”), moody meditations (“House”), and squawking sax outbursts (“That’s Alright”). With production input from French house auteur Cassius, World boasts rich textures that add necessary abrasion to its rhythms' studied smoothness.