Protect-U โ โDouble Rainbowโ
(via No Pain In Pop)
The story of Protect-Uโs inception is better than most. Cosmic house duo Mike Petillo and Aaron Leitko are fugitives from the Washington noise scene, retreating from it after an evening spent listening to the sound of a man cutting the tip of his own little finger off run through a delay pedal. โApparently it was going to come out on 12โ,โ Leitko told the heroes at Yellow Green Red. โFor me, personally, that was a moment where I started to think, โThere really has to be another pathโ.โ That other path sounds, variously, like newworldaquarium, John Talabot, Anthony โShakeโ Shakir and the gods of logic escaping into a wonderful dream. A debut 12โ of their encouraging, quietly moving bliss suites is out now through Future Times, and shows much progression since early days post-noise sounding like โWilliam Orbit jamming with Wolf Eyesโ. The sound of a sound furtively reaching out into the world.
dโEon โ โProchaine Stationโ
(via No Pain In Pop)
dโEon offers up more patient house music from across the Atlantic, the Montrealerโs four-four visions more club-ready than Protect-Uโs if no less gut-deranging. โProchaine Stationโ is perhaps the most potent of the four tracks Chris sent over to me: ephemeral synth tattoos rippling with twilit optimism, bass sweating electricity to keep the buzz going. The vocals arenโt the strongest, but soaked in hymnal reverb they sound distant, anyway, from the scrutiny of prime-time clubland PAs, more akin to something youโd hear spilling from first-floor windows or a cassette player in the 1980s. Considering the pop-spirituality of โAcross The Seaโ, itโs no surprise to learn the two big bursts in dโEonโs musical past came when his parents gave him a synth aged four and when he started playing the Tibetan lute in a northern Indian monastery after college. No surprise at all.
Strange Frames โ โStealing Flowers From a Graveโ
(via Family Time Comp)
Busy establishing itself as one of Californian lo-fiโs most noble enterprises, Family Time finds strength in numbers with its latest release. A 12โ compilation featuring 13 tracks, itโs Strange Framesโ contribution that most snags the ears, โStealing Flowers From a Graveโ an obnoxious, feminine burn of falling plane guitars and sunk-eyed, rattled drumming. Other choice cuts come from Deep Sht, Norse Horse, Ancient Crux, Trudgers and Doll Chimes. Get hold of it.
