"Yeah." Such a great start to Hypnotherapy. It starts with floating ambience, then suddenly from the heart of the Bronx some bad boy goes "yeah". It stops you in your tracks. nthng is going to be quite smthng, er I mean, something.
This Dutch producer's second album treads a delicate line between spacey trance and off-kilter ambience. Sonorous dub techno rises from unseen foundations, rattles the walls with thunderous echoes, raises the roof a thousand times over. And then it flattens out and lets the dubbiness take over.
Most remarkable is the album's climactic moment. It's not a warehouse banger, but instead is a slab of ocean-deep serenity called With You, constantly peppered with a fluttering "just want to be with you" vocal. So weird. And so good.
Incidentally, that cover image is a close-up of the right eye of a bee-fly. Thanks to this Twitter conversation for pointing me towards the photograph. And here's more about the fly if you're into that kind of thing. That's right: you're learning about albums and little flappy things.
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