Cat: MDEC 0161. Rel: 4 Mar 24
Balearic/Downtempo
Side 1 - Track 1. Sugarcane Switch |
Side 1 - Track 2. Crushing |
Side 1 - Track 3. Face In The Moon |
Side 1 - Track 4. Clean Break |
Side 1 - Track 5. Chop Suey |
Side 2 - Track 1. Heels Over Head |
Side 2 - Track 2. Mona Lisa Moan |
Side 2 - Track 3. Pure Smile Snake Venom |
Side 2 - Track 4. Salt Of The Earth (H2Ome) |
You should never assume too much when it comes to Eartheater. Powders on Mad Decent and finds the maverick modernist at her most vulnerable and exposed. Where she's so often warped and manipulated her voice as part of her hyper pop experimentation, here she comes through in strikingly direct terms whether soaring over elegant threads of synthesis (on gorgeous opener 'Sugarcane Switch') or covering System of a Down's 'Chop Suey' in fragile, acoustic fashion. Even after so many albums, it feels like we're still in the process of understanding the many dimensions of the Eartheater creative universe, and here is but one new galaxy to explore.