The Night Mayor is creative in its construct, the foundation of each track packed with digital bubbles that burst into sporadic IDM nuggets. Broken, shattered, displaced and distressed beats merge with disorienting melodics and yet the entire body of work is cohesive as it is ambiguous.
A whirlwind of blistering sound worlds
Described accurately in the press-release as “liquid, hallucinogenic, complex, ambitious and highly entertaining,” Young Girl‘s The Night Mayor is shaped with clinical electronics from another galaxy and is precisely sliced together.
Spanning 11-tracks over 45-minutes, the Western Australia native uncovers moments of utter clarity and flickering disturbances, bits and bytes, blips and bleeps all intertwined in a fine sonic mess. A launching point from 2019’s A Marshmallow Called Moon (also on TruthTable), The Night Mayor continues in its pursuit of “exploring the unique intersection between experimental and minimal analogue electronic music.“
“Vomit Nightmares” opens with its active digital flux and scattershot rhythm (as does the pitch-shifted contortions of “Toilet Nightmares”) while the dynamic flow of “Codeine” and its raw sound-design bliss eventually opens into a full-throttle behemoth of post-rock and organic-electronics. Elsewhere you’ll find microscopic glitch drifting in the margins on tracks like “Seroquel” and “Frustration Nightmares”—utterly syncopated soundtracks for robots. There’s some laser blasting and downtempo shuffling on the tranquilized “Sertraline”—yet another highlight on the album.
Overall, The Night Mayor is creative in its construct, the foundation of each track packed with digital bubbles that burst into sporadic IDM nuggets. Broken, shattered, displaced and distressed beats merge with disorienting melodics (ref. “The Red Birds” and “The Black Gulls”) and yet the entire body of work is cohesive as it is ambiguous. The final two tracks (reference the aptly-titled “Sleep Paralysis” and “wake up, wake up, wake up, wa…”) take a reprieve from their siblings with reduced digital flutter and increased atmospheric pressure to relax our senses. What a whirlwind of blistering sound worlds to say the least!
The Night Mayor is available on TruthTable. [Bandcamp]
