Unemployed is a pleasantly euphoric album of tranquilized electronic music saturated with crisp percussive bubbles, stretched vocal strands and subdued digital-to-analog mutations. Seemingly experimental but vibrantly coherent.
Madrid-based Rec_Overflow (also known as Luis Fernando Parra) has been producing various electronic experiments for about a decade and has amassed a solid library of forward-moving audio distractions that catch the ears with oblique electrons. For Unemployed, Rec_Overflow employs the vocal acrobatics of Norbert Kristof causing an equilibrium of lyrical versus instrumental pieces that flex as much as they contort from start to end.
Data processing and dubstep mining briefly poke through the haze of eerily vocodered and glitched voices. Multi-textured lyrical anthems—twisted and pitched to perfection—make way for brooding ambient twists and turns. And that’s really where Unemployed sparks the most; the voice of this album is colored with a pastel blur that nurtures and fosters a truly unique sound-escape. As “Skip” delves through atmospherics, “Isolator” triggers a gritty dub tone and “Pie” veers into electro terra-firma—its bass rolling around loosely as it hypnotizes. Fans of Tobias Lilja and Bola might accept Rec_Overflow easily into their collections, but for those who are new to his sound, be aware of a brooding, downtempo mood that engulfs and pulls you into its orbit. Unemployed is a pleasantly euphoric album of tranquilized electronic music saturated with crisp percussive bubbles, stretched vocal strands and subdued digital-to-analog mutations. Seemingly experimental but vibrantly coherent.
Unemployed is available on Crazy Language. [Release page]
