False Start is an engaging slow-motion electronic stream that would compliment a weekend road trip up California’s coastline or a trip to your nearest listening room.
Harking back to classic-era intelligently crafted electronics, False Start unleashes memories of yesteryear—Arovane, Deru, Loess, Lexaunculpt and even Autechrean landscapes are brushed upon to an extent. Absorbing abstract downtempo basslines and intertwining them via subdued clicks, tangled cuts and atmospheric shadows, Gabriel Morley (aka Logreybeam) is a professional when it comes to laid back rhythms. Constructed and deconstructed to reveal evenly spread sonic contours, some of Gabriel’s highlights appeared on the Yasume collaboration with John Twells just over a decade ago. False Start displays its half-dozen evolving time capsules with a focus on analog machinery manipulated gracefully.
“Marinetti vs the Golem (w/ Lure)” rummages through analogous flickering, gritty synths and fuzzy basslines as “Joon Glume” rotates its vocal clip in a poly-rhythmic Tri Repetae vein. These comparisons form a reference and only result in highlighting False Start‘s surreal magnetism. “Joon Reminder” taps away at piano keys as an emotive flurry of nostalgic moments float by in a haze. “Technological Forgery (w/ Vibrane)”—perhaps the brightest of the lot—displays shimmering synths nestled above lightly buzzing percussion as vocal bits and bytes pass through a thick atmosphere. It isn’t until “Autumnal Tints (w/ Latrondex)” opens that you’ll feel the swell of Yasume sheets falling slowly to the ground—saturated low-end, vocodered bliss, lush melodic swirls and dense harmonies vibrate with ease. “Scales of Vociferation” closes in true analog ambient form, peppered with all manner of trickling abstract beauty and chaotic musical symmetry.
False Start is an engaging slow-motion electronic stream that would compliment a weekend road trip up California’s coastline or a trip to your nearest listening room.
False Start is available on False Industries.
