Artist: Lapalux

Album: When You’re Gone

Released: 2012

Style: Electronic

Format: MP3 320Kbps

Size: 64 Mb

Brainfeeder presenta
Lapalux
(Brainfeeder / UK)
Atmósferas explosivas
El británico Stuart Howard, aka Lapalux, se forjó una reputación sólida con una serie de bootlegs y remezclas autoeditadas en las que daba rienda suelta a una visión de la música tan familiar como alienígena que le abrió de par en par la puerta de la factoría Brainfeeder. Temas de soul contemporáneo ralentizado, espacioso y deconstruido, rico en texturas, lleno de voces y sintetizadores retorcidos hasta el límite para crear atmósferas explosivas y emotivas como las de los siete cortes de “When You’re Gone”, su primer EP para Brainfeeder.



Tracklist:

1-102 Hours of Introductions
2-Moments
3-Gone
4-Yellow 90's
5-Construction Deconstruction
6-Gutter Glitter
7-Face Down, Eyes Shut

Pulled along by a solemn undercurrent of swampy beats, When You're Gone is uplifted by a quasi-chaotic mix of comfortingly familiar field recordings and their polemic sparkle of synthetic bleeps. Centrifugal track Gutter Glitter does this expertly, and it's a tone which is achieved throughout, shaping this EP into the most-tender of 21st century lullabies. Yellow 90's and Gone harness a rose-tinted retroism around a core of future pop – discordant melodies are turned inside out and wrapped up in their analogue entrails. The sentiment of "it never made sense to me" sung out on Construction Deconstruction suggests Lapalux is rewriting pop's conventions into this avant-garde manifesto. 

The smoggy hews of the longing jazzy collaboration with Py, Moments, has her vocals craving a way to immortalise a feeling: "I keep moments of you trapped in a film." In a fast-moving world, overloaded with stimuli, brains all operating like eight-tabbed web browsers, trapping these transient moments is evermore fleeting; yet Howard's multi-layered approach to sound creates a dimension where a complex emotion is caught in only a few minutes. This maximalist approach could overwhelm, but his telescopic attention to the most intricate of melodies constructed of raw human whistles, synths and rainfall makes this an awesome release which is perpetually unveiling itself. The same could be said for Lapalux's production ability; this is a brilliant EP,