Like some flower, some Fibonacci sequence, some fractal, this takes time to reveal its patterns. What seems familiar at first evolves and evolves into something stranger, until you're not sure what kind of album you're listening to, like you're at some 10,000 ft view of other albums you've heard, and all their squares blur into larger blocks. Beats and samples and noise and pulses and hypnosis, a house backbone prickled with ambient and instrumental hiphop and jazz.
Take Emi's M, that samples the main piano hook from Take 5, but doubles up one of its riffs to bump it into 6/8, and saps the whole point of the song. I can't tell if that's hackery or brilliant -- but in the moment it works, this echo of something familiar made hooksome.
Somewhere 7 or so songs in you'll look back and wonder how you got here and feel like you can see the path, like it couldn't have gone any other way. A quietly brilliant record that reveals more the deeper you dig into it 4.5/5
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