You’re never quite sure how the next spin will arrange the component parts, but the resulting combination is always a pleasure. Good Willsmith member Maxwell Allison’s Mukqs project is like a kaleidoscope of chiptunes, glitchy noise and soothing ambience. It’s an album that comes on in fits and starts like a fever dream you’ll be reaching for the poisonous mushroom again and again. There’s a danger you could end up lost, but Ramzi’s twisting pathways eventually lead to major highlights including the psilocyben-drenched dembow of ‘Fly Timoun’ and the kaleidoscopic tropical lilt of closer ‘Ptite Zelda’. These songs are overgrown with trippy atmospheres, alien sound effects, maze-like rhythms and disorienting dead ends. On Pèze – Piton, she cultivates sounds influenced by Jon Hassell’s Fourth World and grows them into a batch of humid, delirious club music that might be her best yet. Over a string of excellent releases, Phoebé Guillemot, aka RAMZi, has grown a sonic world as lush and unruly as a jungle - or maybe a petri dish. Bad Baby may just be an EP, but it’s an essential stop on French’s journey. INabihah Iqbal took a similar direction last year after shedding her Throwing Shade moniker and penning Weighing of the Heart. If Body Work vividly captured Negative Gemini, the producer, this EP makes a distinct case for Negative Gemini, the one-woman band. ‘You Weren’t There Anymore’, meanwhile, layers a propulsive drum beat and ethereal electronics with French’s intimate songwriting and sounds not unlike Bradford Cox’s solo project, Atlas Sound.
Sure, ‘Bad Baby’ offers a quick bump of everything that made Body Work spectacular club music, but it reaches its climax with pounding garage rock drums. Here, French adds more live instrumentation to her arsenal, splintering the project into a range of new styles and emerging with many of her best songs to date. Below you’ll find bracing noise, delirious club music, hypnotic synth-pop, unclassifiable weirdness and an early contender for best video game soundtrack of the year.Īfter the rave euphoria of 2016’s Body Work, Lindsey French angles Negative Gemini in a powerful new direction on the Bad Baby EP. January was a fruitful start to 2018 no matter what music you’re a fan of. Whether it’s finding yourself drawn to a new genre, appreciating an old classic or reconnecting with a forgotten favorite, the possibilities seem endless. One of the best things about starting a new year is anticipating the music you’ll hear over the next 12 months. Every month Miles Bowe rounds up the best of Bandcamp, unearthing the finest, freshest and weirdest releases the DIY platform has to offer.
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