Amazing album by Brian Leeds aka Huerco S! Seriously good collection of corrugated, rough, and decompositional pieces. Working cheaply, Leeds conscientiously uses low-end software, synths and cassettes so as to subvert the gloss of so much urban dance music, giving tracks an impressionistic, emotive feel. Colonial Patterns plays with the idea of the “New World” by ruralizing its historically urban music, and by stripping techno and house of glitzy fanfare. Most exemplary of this sonic architecture is opener “Struck With Deer Lungs” and closer “Angel (Phase).” Both layer subtle rhythmic pulses with broader strokes of deep sustain, creating a pair of intro/outro signals that shape the album’s whole sequence and function as main supports to the album’s busier core. Bass heavy, Detroit techno leaning “‘linzhiid” and “Quiviria” deliver foreboding standouts with snappy economy. Stripped of pop devices, discarding utopian delusions, Colonial Patterns is electronic music for the open prairie. Inherently inhabitable, yet strangely dispeopled, it’s a fitting universe for this otherworldly debut. Recommended!