Alex Burey pitches 'Chocolate' down and lets the sax climb
The second single on Double Six runs the whole song through a pitcher and lowers it. The saxophone is the reason to stay.
BY JOLT Staff · OCT 6 2026 · 1 min readAlex Burey's 'Chocolate' turns on one decision: the whole song goes through a pitcher and comes out lower. The saxophone keeps that from being a gimmick. It climbs while a second line runs parallel underneath and holds the harmony.
Burey is a multi-instrumentalist and producer, and the paper trail is short: a signing to Double Six, the Domino imprint, earlier this year, then a single called 'Unspoken' in July, then this. He says the song is about intimacy, and the pitch treatment serves that. Everything arrives lower than you expect, close to the ear.
“'Chocolate' is about intimacy. It was created in my studio & I managed to finish it in a few short sessions. The whole song was sent through a pitcher and lowered to make it all sound extra chocolatey. My favourite part of it is the climbing pitched saxophone which harmonises with another sax line which runs parallel.”
He made it in his own studio and finished it in a few short sessions. His brother, Mikey Burey, made the visualiser. The climbing sax, he says, was modelled on 'Dreams', and you can hear it in how far that line travels before it settles.
The trouble is that the lowering is one idea and the record has no second one. It flatters the first listen and dims on the fourth, when the sax is left carrying material a chorus would have helped. As a calling card from a producer who plays everything himself, it holds up anyway.
It is a headphones single, for people who will play it twice on the walk home and skip nothing, because there is nothing to skip. Three and a half, and the sax earns most of that.
