Cross-pollinating Global Goon styled funk with a side of Aphex Twin entanglement, Phylum Sinter keeps a consistent pace throughout these glitched percussive extracts in a certain clip-hop charm.
Christopher Todd, operating under the Phylum Sinter moniker, has detailed mechanical tangents of electronic music since 2001 and continues to baffle, bemuse and boggle the brain with an assortment of oddly tuned bits and bytes. Escape Key is his latest outing with hopskotch recs.
Pop elements slice and dice through disjointed DSP rhythms (ref. “Quantum Probability Lattice”) as “Bubbler” maneuvers through more emotive clips and clicks via a heavily drenched ambient undertone. A simmering semi-shoegaze haze versus post-industrial weaving occurs on “Esskay Dirty”—a highlight on Escape Key that elicits a contained beauty. The only critique that slips through are the brightly polished melodies, stretched to no end, which somehow transform from brittle capsules to crunchy distortions (ref. “Thats Not Acid”).
Cross-pollinating Global Goon styled funk with a side of Aphex Twin entanglement, Phylum Sinter keeps a consistent pace throughout these glitched percussive extracts in a certain clip-hop charm. Broken patterns morphed into bleeps and blips of various shapes and sizes, Escape Key is a mixed bag of audio goods filled with nostalgic interludes and experimental electricity gone awry. Fans of early Toytronic, Skam and Kracfive should take notice.
Escape Key is available on hopskotch recs.
