False 04
Label: False Aralia
Genre: Highlights, Record of the Week, Electronic
$29.99
Availability: In stock
Audiopile Review: Where False Aralia 03 shines with its wistful idiosyncrasies, 04 emits a lush but intermittent light. “Track 1” kicks off with a quivery framework, a set of murky sequences intertwined with atmospheric oscillations. At over 130 BPM, it’s a bit of velocity ascent from Schlossman, but it’s surely the most dance floor-ready False Aralia song to date. “Track 2” pumps the brakes and reverts to the more familiar, mellow side of False Aralia; an amorphous melody accentuated by saturations that glance the surface sparingly. The final track veers off into an anti-gravitational world, accompanied by a rippling lead that floats atop a tightly constructed drum pattern. Both limited edition pressings, sold out at the source.
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a lacerated hunk of metal and circuitry- “Iri.gram” charred on the side- comes back round to us again, still icy from the dark reaches of its orbit as it fades across the sky like memories of a bad dream. it’s throwing signals in all directions at once, jamming any possibility of a coherent rendering and keeping its exact boundaries unknowable. electronically, it arrives as does a storm: softly, first portended by a single drop. but pick any frequency band and listen in– the cadence of the pulses as they intensify feels viscous and decidedly unmechanical. there are discernible sequences, yes, and all at 133bpm, but crouched between the frames there lurks another organizing presence that seems to grab and mutate each repetition on the way past, spewing a stream of facsimiles as it travels, seemingly in an attempt to evade both pattern recognition and any subsequent defensive reactions.