The richness of the sound palette on this album, with glitches, elastic tones, micro jungle samples and the discontinuation of rhythm, take you to a turvy parallel dream world.
Disruptive and chaotic
As the San Diego artist’s own name and the album title suggest, its music develops on a limitless spectrum. Listening to Unruly Souvenir should be a challenge for control freaks as Asymmetrical Head sets the tone by telling who is in charge of time and space, while gently gifting us this present. Being disruptive and chaotic is what makes it special. As if the intended ideological and political message would be something like Che’s famous quote “Hay que endurecerse sin perder jamás la ternura,” which in this case, we could use of a poetic license by translating it as “Anarchy in Southern Cali, but with beauty.”
The richness of the sound palette on this album, with glitches, elastic tones, micro jungle samples and the discontinuation of rhythm, take you to a turvy parallel dream world. In this experience, after processing such an amount of sonic information, the brain rests breathing on specially chosen moments through the 12-tracks. That is why “Qasira” stands out by laying out known references with its beautiful Plaid-like pads and the deconstructed “Champion Sound” vox sample. “Spatium Loop” also draws attention with its Kalimba-like sounds and reverse texture ambience while “Fat Clinic II,” on the other hand, brings some kind of order with the fattest beats/sub frequencies combo of this release, which recalls of early glitch hop works from Flying Lotus.
Unruly Souvenir is available on Bonding Tapes. [Bandcamp]
