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This week's long-player pick comes fresh from the motherboard of São Paulo native ALLBION; six cuts of electrified acid jams, each recorded as a live one-take session and self-released following March's VertiCall EP. The result is an album that crackles with the kind of raw, unguarded energy that studio perfectionism tends to sand away.
Opener Cold Frame sets the stall immediately; an infectious 303 lick leaves traces of PH+14 all over the soundstage, corroding the equally globular acid bass and precisely programmed drum patterns beneath it. Techno-funk in its most concentrated form.
Electric Wave follows with its heavily vocodered cyborg b-boy spitting distorted vocals like hot lubricating grease across a super tight, minimal percussive break, while buzzing saw wave synths carve through the mix like a high-powered laser scythe.
Our cybernetic guide then beckons us to "let the beat take hold" on Feel the Energy Flow; another minimal jam, this one loaded with giddy silver box work and a retro-futuristic nostalgia that feels entirely earned rather than affected.
Late Night picks the pace up considerably; a track you could easily imagine reverberating around the neon-drenched post-apocalyptic nightspots of Blade Runner's Los Angeles, its solid 303 synths jousting above the robodrummer's tough-ass breakbeat.
Lose It to the Sound then invites the listener to deploy some seriously glitchy dance moves, a stuttering, stammering vocal adding to the beautiful chaos above a heavily distorted squiggle of a bassline.
ALLBION closes on Thousand Miles; a track that sits comfortably in the lineage of Egyptian Lover and Cylob, treated vocals layered with precision over tight percs and a commanding bottom end. A fine parting shot to conclude an accomplished electro long-player.
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