Jordan Lieb :: In Through The Out Door EP (Adjunct Audio)

An understated beat introduces the title track, which, at first, appears to address a more simplistic approach. However, it utilizes acidic sounds, with a voice sample that binds and builds towards a more streamlined directional pulse.

[Listen | Purchase] This EP, entitled In Through The Out Door, is Brooklyn’s Jordan Lieb’s first release for Adjunct Audio. Consisting of just two tracks and one remix, it’s short and sweet, but the works are very individual and authentic, in that good old masterpiece sense.

An understated beat introduces the title track, which, at first, appears to address a more simplistic approach.  However, it utilizes acidic sounds, with a voice sample that binds and builds towards a more streamlined directional pulse. There are large helpings of electronically fused beat, set alongside calm fragments, but a spookily expressive echo of instrumentation and vocals, that are laden with icy disdain. The most beautiful vintage synth expression hits; a superbly contrasting layer that really lifts the track to great heights. With a sound that’s pure and uncluttered, it hits the mark, especially when positioned alongside the signature bleeps. “In Through The Out Door” possesses a great transition, and a definite hook.

“Cursed Fingers Eyelashes” has a probing and sinister start. With the consistency of a droplet of water, it creates delicate overspills of beat and trance. There’s some fairytale/storybook like vocals, courtesy of guest vocalist Asako Fujimoto, giving a slight peculiar edge plus twisted views of normality, before it picks up with clap like beat additions. Again, this track is slightly acidic – not in a monumental way, but smoothly operated, with electronic bursts that appear to watch over the supernatural presence of a ghostly vocal. A vintage approach, and all the better for it, but perhaps less of a bite, yet a definite warm up for the dance floor.

The “Cursed Fingers Eyelashes ([a]pendics.shuffle’s Another Head Change remix)” is more contemporary sounding and a sharper version overall, favoring the more dance like vision resulting from a more streamlined focus. There’s some ghost train instrumental wails and a slight Latin feel possessing the track. As a result, an injection of such zest is uplifting to the heart. Overall, there’s lots of changes and contrast, with plenty of bright lights to bind the horror and the mystery that lies beneath it all.

This is a hugely convincing, surprising and inspiring compact EP package.

In Through The Out Door is out now on Adjunct Audio. [Listen | Purchase]