Primitive Objects

Jentlemen invites you into a rich, intimate darkness with their second album, Primitive Objects. Drawing from a background in poetry and influenced by Detroit and Den Haag techno/electro, Primitive Objects is a brain dance for those desiring something between dark ambient and techno-adjacent. Spoken word vocals float on top of deconstructed percussion and delicate melodies, and ask to be savored at the speed of a monologue while in deep space hypersleep.

Lyrics hone in on personal experiences with impermanence, change, and the spiritual, calling on listeners to increase their capacity not only for grief, but also for stories of how to be remembered and how to remember. An apocalyptic journey, Primitive Objects offers hope that what we lose will compost into something beautiful.

Two remixes from M Parent and Scotia bring Primitive Objects from brain dance to body dance—first, with a guttural and slithery acid experimentation of “Starting Over,” then ending with a cocktail of expansive femme acid and elegant vocals.