Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Reedale Rise - Sesuvium (Delsin)


Title: Sesuvium

Artist: Reedale Rise

Label: Delsin

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Genre: Electro


1: Littoral Zone

2: Globular

3: Driftwood

4: Artemia


This is electro, however, it’s more an accompaniment to the scrurrying of trilobites on the Silurian sea bed, and the emergence of the first fish from water to land, than a breakdance  in Time Square. It’s dawn of time shizzle and I’m very much on board with it. The sound design is gossamer thin, but also has a flexible tension, reinforced by atmospheric sound swathes throughout. ‘Littoral Zone’ has handclaps that are so sharp they feel like small daggers; ‘Globular’ due to its concave synth work, does evoke a glob, or at least my imaging of what a glob feels like to live within, so there’s that. ‘Drfitwood’ is where everything comes together, and is a masterpiece of emotive, epic electronics; and ‘Artemia’ is where the funk is decomposed and broken down into its frictional, constituent elements into a slow-mo primal ooze. This is molecular electro at work, and I’m under its spell.


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