A densely packed collection of ten pieces spanning over an hours worth of mind-bending tunes that have left this listener in a state of confusion and curiosity as to what’s actually unfolded. A visceral snapshot of the whole electronic scene in all its various dark shades, colorful hues, and discombobulated rhythms.
A visceral snapshot of the whole electronic scene
A lively, surreal, and dislocated collection of IDM tentacles, beats and abstract melodies, Tescon Pol’s Gai Lan adheres to Concrete Collage’s braindance gravitational pull (have a listen to the decomposed sound field of “Cathodica”) and yet also exhibits fluid song structure, sporadic vocals (do we hear a chorus on “Greyforms” and “Skyline For The Haze” for example?), and ambient flutter on tracks like “GEIJ” and “Waiting So Long.” The Tescon Pol duo (who admittedly label themselves as “polyrhythmic pop experiments and dense, digital psychedelia“—and rightly so) really stretch the envelope yielding broken electronic tunes and pseudo-shoegaze/pop slivers that don’t quite fit any particular genre—and that’s a feat in and of itself. Somewhere between harsh post-industrial, and dare we say (shattered) rock (ref. “Gailan” or “Myriapoda”) and glitchily sweet melodic blips and roughed voices (ref. “Girl in the Adjoining Room, Yesterday”), Tescon Pol shimmies through a smorgasbord of IDM’s creative trajectory—a densely packed collection of ten pieces spanning over an hours worth of mind-bending tunes that have left this listener in a state of confusion and curiosity as to what’s actually unfolded. A visceral snapshot of the whole electronic scene in all its various dark shades, colorful hues, and discombobulated rhythms.
Gai Lan is available on Concrete Collage. [Bandcamp]
