If Time Is On My Side represented waves of blistering darkness, Delirium Portraits, in contrast, is its long-lost relative. Filled with a glistening, almost contagious pulse, each fragment of lyrically interwoven rhythms bounces back and forth between the eardrums as it lures you into its hazy abyss.
[Release page] Delirium Portraits is Tobias Lilja‘s latest musical opus for n5MD and not only does this skilled Scandinavian filter through a mesh of multi-textured vocal abstracts, he closely ties them to minimal dub-techno strains, veiled synthetic washes, upbeat microcosms of noise and a plethora of distilled basslines. His sonic sculptures, often breaking apart as they collapse into thick forests, are packed to the brim with kaleidoscopic color. This saturation of sound, carefully woven around frayed story-lines, is produced with an ear for clarity, consistency an internal-struggle touching the heart, mind and soul. It is with the continual exploration of Delirium Portraits‘ chiseled cuts that one begins to uncover the layers of subliminal textures floating to the surface. If Time Is On My Side represented waves of blistering darkness, Delirium Portraits, in contrast, is its long-lost relative. Filled with a glistening, almost contagious pulse, each fragment of lyrically interwoven rhythms bounces back and forth between the eardrums as it lures you into its hazy abyss.
Delirium Portraits is out now on n5MD. [Release page]
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