Johnny McDowell’s cable.percussion delivers a vivid array of sculpted breakbeats and weathered braindance textures on Bleach, a six-track collection where glitch flickers at the periphery and emotional resonance surfaces from the very first moments.
Sweetened in tone, but never lacking weight
Johnny McDowell’s cable.percussion delivers a vivid array of sculpted breakbeats and weathered braindance textures on Bleach, a six-track collection where glitch flickers at the periphery and emotional resonance surfaces from the very first moments. “Vitro” opens with nostalgic techno/IDM contours, evoking echoes of a distant era through its intricate melodic framework.
Each piece moves briskly, yet lands with precision—sweetened in tone, but never lacking weight. “Niobium” unravels in waves of acid-drenched rhythm and tightly wound funk, while “Alkahest” pulses with a familiar yet invigorating cadence, its layered harmonies conjuring a memory both distant and present.
“Ellaria” drifts through a softened rhythmic terrain, its shuffled patterns painting a serene but complex soundscape. “Mutagen,” by contrast, explores shadowy modular territory, rich with angular textures and kinetic fragmentation. The finale, “Bleach 141,” cuts through industrial-IDM architecture with conviction, merging sculpted noise with a surging blips’n bleeps undercurrent—arguably the EP’s most arresting moment.
Bleach is available on People Can Listen. [Bandcamp]
