This one slipped by our radar earlier this year (May 2022)—Fetcho (aka Brandon Knocke) delivers a wide range of sonic delights and we’re back on track with his self-titled on Schematic Music Company. Busting through in-your-face electronics and polished braindance elements…
An otherwise baffling album
This one slipped by our radar earlier this year (May 2022)—Fetcho (aka Brandon Knocke) delivers a wide range of sonic delights and we’re back on track with his self-titled on Schematic Music Company. Busting through in-your-face electronics and polished braindance elements, there are other simmering soundscapes and escapes through ambient corridors (“Ramen”) that simply can’t be ignored either. The subtle found sounds and field recordings floating across the landscape with minuscule bits and bytes to catch our ears, is offset only by Fetcho’s wide-angle lenses that take a bit of getting used to.
The broken beat shenanigans on tracks like “This Might Be Gauche,” “Probabilities,” and “The Dial” provide just enough melodic jolts and mangled rhythms to fuel the rest of the album. Downtempo shades aren’t too off in the distance either; “Guilty Party” cascades with its lounge acrobatics and misty off-center grooves. And yet, when you think you might have adjusted to Fetcho‘s robust exhibition, tracks like “Sec” and “Une” take hold and don’t let go. “Sec” dives into smoldering modular/technoid and hypnotic forms as it ebbs and flows with bumpy beat-work and shuffling echoes while “Une” offers synthesizer blips’n beeps and eroded musical strands of ambient dust and debris. Quite a beautiful closing to an otherwise baffling album we’re lucky to have grabbed a hold of, finally.
Fetcho is available on Schematic. [Bandcamp]
