Siriusmo is, full stop, one of the best electronic musicmakers going right now, and he keeps getting better. I couldn't be more pumped for his upcoming album. In the meantime, this, his 2013 masterpiece made it onto Spotify, and it's a lively, thrilling little listen, evoking all the most-enjoyable moments from Squarepusher and Aphex Twin, plus the rockist nerve to go big on the fuzz, dotted with madcap bursts of rap and luscious organ washes.
Friedrich lists Squarepusher as an inspiration, and it shows - there's shades of the same stuttering breakdowns and jazzy inflections. But it's so much more than that. Siriusmo's got the science and the heart, a master of crafting nasty tones, a proper player's sense of inflection, bringing so much nuance and organic sprightliness to every melody.
On the album scale, its a little slow to build, but once it turns the corner on the delightfully squelchy title track, its onward into blistering hip hop, and back, and back again, before settling into pretty pure tonality and wild experimentation - all of it completely enjoyable. It's all wildly inventive, all delivered effortlessly, a terribly rare hybrid of headtickling nuance and headbobbing power 4.5/5
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