ARTIST...: Kloke
TITLE....: Sea Levels
YEAR.....: 2014
LABEL....: Styles Upon Styles
CAT.NO...: SUS004V
GENRE....: Electronic
TIME.....: 23:20
SIZE.....: 53,51 MB
QUALITY..: 320kbps/44,1kHz/Joint Stereo
ENCODER..: LAME
SOURCE...: WEB
RLS.DATE.: 2014/07/22
WEBSITE..: http://www.bagpak.net
TRACKLIST
01) (06:36) Deep City
02) (02:41) Mayfield
03) (03:51) Ritual
04) (02:27) Room With A View
05) (04:13) Flood
06) (03:32) Unlearning
Sea Levels is the brand new EP from Andy Donnelly aka Kloke. A recent graduate of Red
Bull Music Academy New York and British ex-pat marooned in Melbourne for the past
decade, Donnelly distills the urban groove and bucolic mood of his heritage through
the vibrancy of his new environs into a wholly unique soundscape.
Following a narrative of apocalyptic tides and the oceanic sublime,Sea Levels sinks
into the ambient, house, and techno realms with flashes of two-step, hip hop and dub.
It's an idiosyncratic take on British electronic music viewed through the lens of
relocation,aided by an arsenal of analog synthesizers, drum machines, and
psychotropic effects.
Kloke's music exists within a new "Bubble Metropolis" that inspires shimmering
grandeur and water-logged dread rather than urban nihilism. Delicate in its peaceful
moments yet conditioned to the inevitable tide,Sea Levels invokes harmony and
disarray in equal measures. "Mayfield" and "Room With A View" cast quiet hope against
the surge that follows "Ritual" and "Flood", both of which storm in fervent
opposition to the coral groove of opener "Deep City". All harbors of tranquility
burst under the shape shifting whump of "Unlearning", a fitting finale for Kloke's
first release in two years that dishevels UK-centric tropes into a bristling menace
of collisional origins.
Sea Levels is available on limited vinyl and unlimited digital on April 16, 2014. The
frayed jacket illustration comes courtesy of Calvin Ho, the penman behind Archie
Pelago's Hall of Human Origins cover.
SUS004 was mastered & cut to precision by Matt Colton.
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