A proverbial smorgasbord of abstract electronic nuggets that transform into many digestible sizes and shapes.
A widescreen audio exhibition
Described accurately as a free-form musical outlet, experimentation, and a storytelling device, the self-titled album by Jawhinge traverses a wide-spanning genre palette that cannot be pigeonholed, as evidenced on the mysteriously tranquil ambient/soundtrack opening thread “How To Go Places (Intro).” As the tracks move forward, the artist delves full-throttle into more upfront electronic forms and functions; teetering on the edges of braindance, IDM, techno, and glitchy drill’n bass structures (ref. “Clown.corps.”) For these ears, it’s when Jawhinge adds spoken-word elements, left-field samples, and smothered bleeps’n breaks (ref. “Stay In Your Own Head”) that the musician finds his comfort zone—if that’s at all possible within this widescreen audio exhibition.
If there’s an album to summarize the whole exp-electronic, offshoot jazz, and exploratory techno scene, this would be it. “Tame Receive” morphs all of these elements into broken-beat patches and spastic Squarepusher-infused emotional terrain. There are outlandish modular strands also revealed on Jawhinge. Take “He’s Right There (Outro),” and it’s Subotnick-like entanglement as the closing “Sad R9K (Bonus Track)” dives into more serene downtempo shoegaze shades; the likes of B. Fleischmann and early Broadcast come to mind. In all, we have a proverbial smorgasbord of abstract electronic nuggets that transform into many digestible sizes and shapes.
Jawhinge is available on Mahorka. [Bandcamp | Website]
