a hazy, gauzy wall of shimmer stands between the listener and the beat. the sonic theme of isolation in an environment of industrial entropy pulls this record in two directions: grounded unfettered song structures, an escapist fantasy production techniques. at its hardest there’s still an element of retro computer sound card, a softening barrier. and at its most vulnerable, there’s still a sense of light, sun piercing the raindrops your eyelashes hang on to. haunted and hopeful Arpad Okay
As usual, Kirby manipulates various interwar records to fit a cavalcade of emotional states: blissful (B1, E8), tragic (D2, D5), frantic (E1, E6), and just plain horrifying (F3, G1, H1, K1). gjoe52