Laurel Halo - Quarantine
Label.........................: Hyperdub
Genre.........................: Electronic
StoreDate.....................: May-29-2012
Source........................: CDDA
Grabber.......................: Exact Audio Copy (Secure Mode)
Encoding Scheme...............: Lame 3.98.4 V0 VBR Joint-Stereo
Size..........................: 67.52 MB
Total Playing Time............: 41:20
Release Notes:
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Since 2010's "King Felix" and into last yearÆs highly lauded "Hour
Logic," Laurel Halo has developed a self-contained take on electronic
music, collapsing the boundaries between ambient, pop, synthetic
psychedelia, dub and the techno music of her Midwest roots. Fixed
stylistic territories fold in on themselves, time quickens -- her music
is meant for transit, body listening and loud soundsystems.
"Quarantine," her debut album and first release on Hyperdub, is her most
focused and evolved release yet. This is an album of transporting
songs, various altitude shifts via effecting pop-concrete, built on a
rich synthesis of intuitive but exacting electronic abstraction, bass
pulse and heartfelt songwriting.
Like Halo's previous releases, "Quarantine" slams ambient suspension and
disorienting detail up against each other. The twelve songs here
operate as complex vacuums, airborne harmony and movement met with
incidental noise and sub bass pressure, sample details and synth lines
as trails across a mutilated sonic topography.
What is different on "Quarantine" is that Halo's voice is foregrounded
-- the vocals are dry against lush arrangements, and her confidence with
lyrics and delivery is more pronounced. Her expressive singing works as
a pivot in songs that eschew the usual melodic routes to generate
emotion, serving as contour and human definition in contrast to the
forbidden synthetic space. Sensual melodies are bent to the point of
nausea, inducing the torque of a psychedelic pop that simultaneously
recalls elevation and trauma. This is a kind of music you might not
have heard before, and in 2012 that in itself is rare.
"Quarantine" will be released worldwide by Hyperdub in late May in the
UK and early June in the US.
Tracklisting
01. Airsick 3:58
02. Years 2:52
03. Thaw 5:59
04. Joy 3:27
05. MK Ultra 4:17
06. Wow 1:23
07. Carcass 4:30
08. Holoday 1:50
09. Tumor 2:40
10. Morcom 3:03
11. Nerve 2:31
12. Light + Space 4:50
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