Greg Fenton reviews Alien D – Mediterranean Blue – Digital Artefacts
Is music about finding yourself? Or losing yourself? This morning’s question has two different answers depending on your point of view -each valid. I like to be somewhere in between.
Alien D’s selection of six tracks covers both concepts across a landscape, moving through danceable rhythms such as Celestial Digs to the dislocation of the opening, the explicitly wonderful UFO Love and its cosmic array of finely tuned bliss. A more rugged bassline drives When You Hear the Bell alongside a shuffle of breaks, leaving the closing Blue to exercise its drums into a hypnotic, if familiar, groove washed over by pads and expanding synthesisers. Heartwarming stuff.
Release: November 14
Download/Stream on Bandcamp
Buy a cassette at Juno
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