Experimental Electronic Music
Melting Days is constantly in motion—loops building, layers arriving and dissolving, rhythms surfacing and retreating, and that restlessness is what keeps it from becoming background music. It demands a kind of attention that most ambient records politely decline to ask for. Ten albums in, that quality hasn’t dulled. If anything it’s sharper.
On Melting Days, the Seattle producer returns to the immersive, rhythm-forward ambient sound that shaped his early work.
The album is a diverse and playful exploration of jazz, lounge, hip-hop and IDM electronica carefully molded, shaped and pressed into eleven tracks of signature Lusine ICL sound.
Despite nearly 20 years since its release, nothing has dimmed or faded the impact of these tracks nor their sounds and scenarios.
The whimsical mix of avant-garde pop and playful electronic listening music should not be confused with it being frivolous or lightweight, however, as McIlwain’s ingenious, […]
