Despite us criticism continually trying to place them in ill-fitting boxes, the best "Dance" artists thrive on never allowing the listener to get a good handle on them - what to expect, and where a recording is going once it is started. This is true of Barry Lynn, alias Boxcutter, who chops countless influences into pieces before bite their spray at the top of his latest album. The final product is awash with intriguing reference points while simultaneously sounding rockets not quite like the work of any other Act. Dissolution is named after the video effect of fading an image in the next, and all this all along, we see the changing forms and of morphing their eyes, ears swimming synths and luxurious beats.
It could take from the dissolve after a handful of listening and call it blurry, incoherent. This is partially true - by jumping intensity to introspection, trails has led voice to instrumentals where the bottom of range rules Supreme (hello, parameter Factory), Lynn rather risk disrupting the stability of his most recent collection. But a part of the joy derived from fourth album of the Irish in the North is that the listener is always kept on their toes. And although all not exactly ready dancefloor frolics, as is the nature of the thing vaguely (yet) classified as IDM, many can find a home in the club and the car, soundtracking the night and the night in both.
Panama gives a deliciously tropical tone, coming as El Guincho mixture with The Invisible while Papua New Guinea from the Future Sound of London is pumped from the next room. The following Zabriskie Disco is completely different: noise deaf bass dub-level fumbles his way around a track meant synth supported and yet easy to handle slips, akin to the vibes summertime squelchy by Planet Mu of Lynn Oriol more. Singer Brian Greene appears three times, his best contributed to cutting to the delight of lo - fi is title-track of this record - more than any artist Panda bears are alongside Boxcutter in the records of dance/electronica. Greene returns the nearest Ufonik: G-funk, updated for the post-dubstep landscape.
He has a little disjointed, a little indulgent, but when the best beats Boxcutter connect with welcoming of synapses, the effect is as subcutaneous fizzy pop on a summer day: brilliant, brilliant, nervous and jovial. Holidaymakers, be sure to pack it next to your factor some and two for a pocket.
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