Filled Spaces does just as the title suggests— filling skewed audio bits with emotion, subtle vocal samples, nostalgic drones, and fuzzy IDM tentacles.
Audiobulb has, over the years, created an open platform for new (and established) musicians operating on the fringes of glitchy electronic experiments both in soundtrack-driven ambient nuggets as well as upfront beat-centered structures. Ficture (aka Gábor Tokár) resides on the latter spectrum, where Filled Spaces does just as the title suggests— filling skewed audio bits with emotion, subtle vocal samples, nostalgic drones, and fuzzy IDM tentacles. It starts this way on the cascading “Portable,” a blurry, upbeat, psychedelic synth flurry that tugs and pulls on the senses. “Briefly” offers chopped up bass wobble and sliced guitar extracts, while vocal strands float deep in the background—eventually opening up to rhythm-packed downtempo blips and bleeps. Filled Spaces is brittle in its delivery of precision beats, bass, and brisk melodies, “Second Aid” exhibits a laidback form—an ebb and flow of subdued effects merge together and simply flow. “Drowner” takes on further leftfield trip-hop elements, its slow-motion, and drowning sound waves are punctuated by crisp, focused percussion. Closing with a remix for J Views’ “Don’t Pull Away (ft. Milosh)”—this track is a re-processed and chilled-electronic rendition which takes the original to new(er) ground, its sensual lyrics weaved around crunched drums and evocative rhythm. Filled Spaces, as a whole, is a well-rounded extended player of brightly lit electronic bubbles bursting at the seams with low-end drifting and a far away clicks’n cuts mood.
Filled Spaces is available on Audiobulb.
