"Obscure and eerie broken beat, dubstep deconstructions dilute reality into an open-ended teaser of tense and physically alert, smokey reverie"
Brooklyn-based Laenz‘s debut album “After Sunset” on EMA’s fondly wub-dub candy store Woozy grabs attention by the collar. Music for the flesh, master of the senses, a trip towards an all-consuming rhythmic movement of body and soul.
Precisely intimate productions of haunting textures, personal to Laenz, morph into a delicate black and blood-orange cassette, devising a space of high-quality dream-induced psychosis in a single play. “War on the heart“, she concludes, at the end of carving mind projections into an emotively dense, brooding dialogue with sound, a conjecture ultimately reflected in the emissions of her work.
Down ominous winding paths go ‘Choices‘, spirited percussions and metallic whirs atop stretched-out mystical synths, followed closely by the trip-hopping title track, ‘After Sunset‘, a tasteful mild-destructor doused in zapping psychedelia. On side B, ‘Echoes Until‘ rumbles in subfrequencies spaced scrumptiously until dripping lucid ambience erupts from ‘wiL‘ sparks of breakcore and a teary-eyed fairy-nymph’s soft imaginations.
Laenz’s ‘After Sunset‘ unfurls a strong intoxication of suppressed melancholia. Obscure, eerie and severely low-end broken beat, dubstep deconstructions on a runtime of about thirty minutes dilute reality into an open-ended teaser of tense and physically alert, smokey reverie. Get your hands dirty.
‘After sunset’ is scheduled for release 29th March via Woozy. Order a digital copy from Bandcamp.
TRACKLIST
1. Ballad Before The Break
2. Choices
3. After Sunset
4. Echoes Until
5. wiL
6. Choices – Untold Remix