Cult Glaswegian electro warper Lanark Artefax tweaks out his first release in five years, returning to AD 93 with a typically tricky style augmented by fresh hyper-pop influences - RIYL Æ, Perko, SOPHIE, Alva Noto.
Bending back to Nic Tasker’s label nearly a decade since his early ones for Howes’ Cong Burn and Lee Gamble’s UIQ sent shockwaves thru the scene, Lanark Artefax measures distance travelled since 2019 with a finer grasp of his sound’s mercurial rhythmic, melodic and spatial qualities on ‘Metallur’. His sound feels strung between epochs of ‘80s sci-fi and electronica-influenced braindance, contemporary sound design and flashes of hyperpop suss as he packs a lot of movement and mood into something resembling a sci-fi short story.
The five tracks follow a narrative arc from the angularities of ’Surface Light’, with gibber-jawed AI vocal sirens skittering across its taut and jagged surfaces and buckled syncopations, to something more clearly resembling futurist hyperpop in the quasi-song arrangement of the title tune, whisking AI glossolalia into emotive spirals. His feel for classic electro propulsion systems firmly comes into play on a recalibration of brisk ghettotech in ‘Meszthread’ like SOPHIE meets Heinrich Mueller, and a pair beat-less designs ‘Tris’ and the majestic synth panorama ‘At the Bay’ shut it down in strong style.
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Cult Glaswegian electro warper Lanark Artefax tweaks out his first release in five years, returning to AD 93 with a typically tricky style augmented by fresh hyper-pop influences - RIYL Æ, Perko, SOPHIE, Alva Noto.
Bending back to Nic Tasker’s label nearly a decade since his early ones for Howes’ Cong Burn and Lee Gamble’s UIQ sent shockwaves thru the scene, Lanark Artefax measures distance travelled since 2019 with a finer grasp of his sound’s mercurial rhythmic, melodic and spatial qualities on ‘Metallur’. His sound feels strung between epochs of ‘80s sci-fi and electronica-influenced braindance, contemporary sound design and flashes of hyperpop suss as he packs a lot of movement and mood into something resembling a sci-fi short story.
The five tracks follow a narrative arc from the angularities of ’Surface Light’, with gibber-jawed AI vocal sirens skittering across its taut and jagged surfaces and buckled syncopations, to something more clearly resembling futurist hyperpop in the quasi-song arrangement of the title tune, whisking AI glossolalia into emotive spirals. His feel for classic electro propulsion systems firmly comes into play on a recalibration of brisk ghettotech in ‘Meszthread’ like SOPHIE meets Heinrich Mueller, and a pair beat-less designs ‘Tris’ and the majestic synth panorama ‘At the Bay’ shut it down in strong style.
Cult Glaswegian electro warper Lanark Artefax tweaks out his first release in five years, returning to AD 93 with a typically tricky style augmented by fresh hyper-pop influences - RIYL Æ, Perko, SOPHIE, Alva Noto.
Bending back to Nic Tasker’s label nearly a decade since his early ones for Howes’ Cong Burn and Lee Gamble’s UIQ sent shockwaves thru the scene, Lanark Artefax measures distance travelled since 2019 with a finer grasp of his sound’s mercurial rhythmic, melodic and spatial qualities on ‘Metallur’. His sound feels strung between epochs of ‘80s sci-fi and electronica-influenced braindance, contemporary sound design and flashes of hyperpop suss as he packs a lot of movement and mood into something resembling a sci-fi short story.
The five tracks follow a narrative arc from the angularities of ’Surface Light’, with gibber-jawed AI vocal sirens skittering across its taut and jagged surfaces and buckled syncopations, to something more clearly resembling futurist hyperpop in the quasi-song arrangement of the title tune, whisking AI glossolalia into emotive spirals. His feel for classic electro propulsion systems firmly comes into play on a recalibration of brisk ghettotech in ‘Meszthread’ like SOPHIE meets Heinrich Mueller, and a pair beat-less designs ‘Tris’ and the majestic synth panorama ‘At the Bay’ shut it down in strong style.
Cult Glaswegian electro warper Lanark Artefax tweaks out his first release in five years, returning to AD 93 with a typically tricky style augmented by fresh hyper-pop influences - RIYL Æ, Perko, SOPHIE, Alva Noto.
Bending back to Nic Tasker’s label nearly a decade since his early ones for Howes’ Cong Burn and Lee Gamble’s UIQ sent shockwaves thru the scene, Lanark Artefax measures distance travelled since 2019 with a finer grasp of his sound’s mercurial rhythmic, melodic and spatial qualities on ‘Metallur’. His sound feels strung between epochs of ‘80s sci-fi and electronica-influenced braindance, contemporary sound design and flashes of hyperpop suss as he packs a lot of movement and mood into something resembling a sci-fi short story.
The five tracks follow a narrative arc from the angularities of ’Surface Light’, with gibber-jawed AI vocal sirens skittering across its taut and jagged surfaces and buckled syncopations, to something more clearly resembling futurist hyperpop in the quasi-song arrangement of the title tune, whisking AI glossolalia into emotive spirals. His feel for classic electro propulsion systems firmly comes into play on a recalibration of brisk ghettotech in ‘Meszthread’ like SOPHIE meets Heinrich Mueller, and a pair beat-less designs ‘Tris’ and the majestic synth panorama ‘At the Bay’ shut it down in strong style.
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Cult Glaswegian electro warper Lanark Artefax tweaks out his first release in five years, returning to AD 93 with a typically tricky style augmented by fresh hyper-pop influences - RIYL Æ, Perko, SOPHIE, Alva Noto.
Bending back to Nic Tasker’s label nearly a decade since his early ones for Howes’ Cong Burn and Lee Gamble’s UIQ sent shockwaves thru the scene, Lanark Artefax measures distance travelled since 2019 with a finer grasp of his sound’s mercurial rhythmic, melodic and spatial qualities on ‘Metallur’. His sound feels strung between epochs of ‘80s sci-fi and electronica-influenced braindance, contemporary sound design and flashes of hyperpop suss as he packs a lot of movement and mood into something resembling a sci-fi short story.
The five tracks follow a narrative arc from the angularities of ’Surface Light’, with gibber-jawed AI vocal sirens skittering across its taut and jagged surfaces and buckled syncopations, to something more clearly resembling futurist hyperpop in the quasi-song arrangement of the title tune, whisking AI glossolalia into emotive spirals. His feel for classic electro propulsion systems firmly comes into play on a recalibration of brisk ghettotech in ‘Meszthread’ like SOPHIE meets Heinrich Mueller, and a pair beat-less designs ‘Tris’ and the majestic synth panorama ‘At the Bay’ shut it down in strong style.