Pieral
Astro Nautico nous déniche encore une fois une tuerie au format mp3. Le premier morceau m'a fait tomber de haut et le reste de l'album a fini de me faire gober. C'est juste beau.
Favorite track: Pneumatic For The People.
Time Wharp, the eponymous debut full-length of Atlanta-born, Brooklyn-based producer Kaye Loggins, is an uplifting treatise on minimal synth wave and house music.
The album reveals a patiently crafted sound rife with depth and subtle complexities. Previous releases, including 2012’s BLK EP for Astro Nautico, fitted simple sine and triangle tones to stripped down emotive beats and bass. On Time Wharp, Loggins extends this sonic signature to combine meditative synthesis with house and techno. The result is versatile, fueling dancefloor excitement and introspective pause in equal share - a kinetic calm constantly at play with its own duality.
Chopped up live drum patterns and mantric vocal hooks provide the album’s rhythmic sediment, with insistent saxophones and walled up synth bliss washing in and out of the stereo field for dynamic effect. On ‘Market Solution’ and ‘Tophat,’ mesmeric synthesizers take the fore, brooding and bubbling over no-nonsense four-on-the-floor drum shuffles. The placid library tones and ambient textures of ‘Castle’ and ‘Median’ provide a peaceful, contemplative foil, until triumphant, upbeat singles like ‘Cole Dub’ break the spell, inheriting the glorious soulful clarity and dancefloor efficiency of New York house.
Throughout Time Wharp’s eight tracks, an air of patience and maturity is born of repetition, the hallmark of a producer who has effectively fused her influences into a focused sound that is her own.
credits
released June 9, 2015
Original music written, produced and recorded by Kaye Loggins.
Additional engineering by Michael J. Thomas III.
Percussion by Michael J. Thomas III on tracks A1, A2, A3, & A5.
Additional percussion by Avila Santo on track A5.
Saxophone by Dane Orr on track A5.
Additional keyboard & production by Noel Munger on track B2.
Front photo by Kaye Loggins. Back photo by Inga Schunn.
Designed by Paul Baisley.
Mastered by Sacred Data at The Cathedral in Brooklyn, NY.
Another banger from Pleasure Model; this is dark, pulsing, nighttime house music that slaps hard but maintains a sense of menace. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 14, 2020