The high-level experimental electronic grooves that Second Seasons derives are utterly perplexing as the album moves forward with intense propulsion.
A potent and evocative record
The thirteen-piece collection titled Immense Heaven from Second Seasons was released on April 4th, 2024. His Errorgrid outing (Parse, Care), released in 2021, was dubbed “a fascinating study of what happens when you apply Autechre levels of technology to making more directly accessible but still experimental beats,” and Immense Heaven feels like an entirely new avalanche of sound built from similar foundations. The poignant “all cycles” opener (as well as “fL,” “C+E,” and concluding “our fracture”) glitch by with emotive vocals that Tobias Lilja fans would easily devour coupled with port-royal flares. The high-level experimental electronic grooves that Second Seasons derives are utterly perplexing as the album moves forward with intense propulsion.
Time-stretched mechanical patterns and intricate melodic slivers bounce in all directions and can be heard on “p!nch” until the composition slows itself down and transforms into an entirely different shape. Immense Heaven‘s flow transports us back a few years to a time when artists like Lexaunculpt and Telefon Tel Aviv dazzled with their sharp electrical spheres that felt broken, tangibly surreal, and filled with carefully fractured blips’n bleeps. This viewpoint is evident in the way that tracks like “4j” and the quiet “B ECO” pass by effortlessly. “Scan valley,” “squiggles~,” and “mesh overlay” are three powerful and intricate compositions that set the standard with their rhythmic mulch and crunch-hop display. Immense Heaven is a potent and evocative record that finds a comfy place in our digital catalog.
Immense Heaven is available on Schematic. [Bandcamp]
