10/9/2024
I can’t recommend this album enough. It fits into a narrow niche of harmonic, melodic and groove-laden techno which is rarely seen in album form. Harmonic tech, perhaps. Like a good concept album each track tells their own story within the album’s sonic narrative. Take 10405 (Alice), for example. The first breakdown build feels like looking down on the beating heart of a club from above. The driving bass and kick like the stomp of feet and swaying shoulders, the astro-high strings holding you up watching the clubbers united in dance. Earnest Kelly feels like connecting with the music on entering a stage at a festival: like the music makes your mind think of the shapes that fit to the shapes your body is already thinking about throwing. Before you know it you’re caught up in the flow of the rhythm, letting your body be glided by the beat of the club. All harmonic tech is innately jazzy in some respect. From sneaking around the semitones, funk-derived baselines or stripped down disco cuts with tight drums. This album nurtures all of that good stuff into a wonderful sonic journey.
There Is No Right Time
10/14/2016
