





NB: post from un-Hyped pre-history updated (& re-upped) with new tracks, blather & self-deprecation...
There are lots of things to love about
Cepia - his moody, naive melodies, an always fascinating & intensely textured base of clicks, echoes & beats, the way the one is laid over the other, the cunning, almost drum'n'bass or dubstep-y sense of pace (the idea that a melody can work itself out over a much faster rhythm track & that the tension between the two is what pulls the piece along)...
Opening Parade &
Hoarse, giveaways from last year's
Natura Morta on
Ghostly, say all this more articulately. & in notably fewer words.
So do the clanging, reverbed
Ithaca, from this year's
Ghostly Swim giveaway extravaganza (re-up: see
here), & the vampy, intensely textured remix of
Lusine's Flat, from
Podgelism.
For a rarer, more ethereal version, try the lovely Countrytime from the
Dowry EP (buy it
here & enjoy the pretentiousness of an eMusic review that uses the phrase - apparently without embarrassment - "did the budding experimentalist's muse fully exit her shell"!).
Ramp on
Idol Tryouts Vol. 2 is a drone-drenched, almost
Tim Hecker-esque, take on this side of Cepia. & that's
a good thing (or
here).
But best of all, to these ears, is sqr exp - a wonderfully warped, lurching, chattering piece on the rare-ish
SMM Vol. 2.