“When the noise fractures, what’s left is the lull—a crumbling five-track descent into ambient drift.”
Slow-burning and genre-defying, downtempo's finest: Song for a Gorgeous Blonde conjure an unholy mixture of Jazztronica, Experimental Electronic and Prog — with a Steely Dan ghost lurking at the end — while their Repetition inför söndagen cradles a downtempo excursion in reverent church-like organ. Slippery When Wet conjure downtempo experimental electronica using only guitars and zero effects, born in an Arizona monsoon. Cathopsis sees Solypsis and Cathode Ray Tube join forces, while The Land Of returns to moody downtempo breaks and gorgeous synth lines. Alex Routledge delivers a hypnotic 15-minute live journey through IDM, ambient electronica and psychedelia built entirely through real-time looping.