As swirly and intricate and formless as ever, Mosaics Within Mosaics continues the Circulatory tradition of whorling horns and bass and acoustic strum and voice and voice and voice into a bewildering vortex of sound, settling into a more purely psychedelic take on Will Hart's former Olivia Tremor Control sound.
Tape tricks, more so than ever, are woven into the record's fabric, with the whines and swoops of acceleration standing tall as a full-fledged instrumental presence. It's a consequence of method: Hart recruiting E6 alums to make parts to be stitched into the whole. But it's also a stylistic move, one that helps scrub the process of creation, reducing it all to echoes of moments that stretch and stretch.
It's all intricate and admirable, but it's too fluid, too lacking in songs and structure, to really recommend strongly. Whereas the OTC classics felt like intricate puzzles of ingenious design, this feels more like a crash of legos, hazily assembled, tempting you to make them into something more 3/5
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