A Marshmallow Called Moon dips into the tiniest sounds, exploring the unique intersection between experimental and minimal analogue electronic music—taking seemingly complex arrangements and presenting them in a lighthearted collection.
“Making sense of sound is one of the most computationally complex tasks we ask our brains to do, because we process information in microseconds,” said Nina Kraus, the Hugh Knowles Professor of Communication Sciences in an article for Science Daily from December, 2015. Take this bit of knowledge and apply it to Young Girl (aka Western Australia-based Michael Strong), and we are gently guided by A Marshmallow Called Moon, a 10-track album for the new Audiobulb offshoot label TruthTable that promises to provide analogue adventures in sound.
A Marshmallow Called Moon discovers hundreds of microsounds in the dream-glitch electronic arena as the artist describes—and we wholeheartedly agree. Each piece on this new album offers delicate (and sometimes rugged) abstract IDM foundations such as the bouncy “Coconut Neutrino Balls” where emotive blips and bleeps meander with touching melodic sprinkles from start to end. Elsewhere you’ll find digital signals crossing each other on “Heliocentric Cheesecake”—a fragmented bleep manifest—to more laidback numbers such as the short-running “Sorbet Entanglement” that flickers its delicate notes just inches above terra firma. Moving through calm sonic bits, bytes, and bells, “Caramebula” grips the senses with a nostalgic flare not unlike artists like Plod and Plone once executed gracefully during IDM’s early years. Tranquilized ambient moments drift on “Blackholes & Honey,” an utterly serene audio landscape. The title-track delivers light mechanical beats that eventually expand and contract as a plethora of rhythmic notes shuffle about in the background. It’s simply a mind-boggling assortment that blends improvised ambient-electronic arrangements with a glitched-out heartbeat.
Overall, A Marshmallow Called Moon dips into the tiniest sounds, exploring the unique intersection between experimental and minimal analogue electronic music—taking seemingly complex arrangements and presenting them in a lighthearted collection.
A Marshmallow Called Moon is available on TruthTable.
