Salt And Sugar Look The Same
TIM KOH & SUN AN
Salt And Sugar Look The Same
Boomkat Product Review:
Hazy and hypnotic, Tim Koh and Sun An's collaborative debut is a collection of 18 short sketches that blur fingerpicked American Primitive with mangled samples and distorted ambience.
There's a bleary-eyed quality to 'Salt and Sugar Look the Same' that sounds as if Koh and An are trying to uncover memories without offering too many clues. They wrote the album remotely, shuttling ideas back and forth between Los Angeles and Berlin, but connected the dots between shared experiences of being Korean American in California. And the album's linking thread is incense, that's referenced throughout: on 'Lemongrass Citronella', they capture the pungent odor with ruffled, hallucinatory instrumental loops and high pitched squeaks, signifying burning remains on 'Incense Holder' with Fennesz-like bit-crushed crackles, and the sweet smell of sandalwood with naive synths on 'Sandalwood in the Summer'.
Elsewhere, the record is more tangible, slipping into instrumental folk on 'Besafe Airtel' and veering towards weightless West Coast new age on 'Somewhere in Time'. But Koh and An sound most confident when they're walking on the astral plane, concocting hypnagogic slowcore on the swooning 'Can't Stand In The Past' or floating up to the clouds on the wooly title track.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Hazy and hypnotic, Tim Koh and Sun An's collaborative debut is a collection of 18 short sketches that blur fingerpicked American Primitive with mangled samples and distorted ambience.
There's a bleary-eyed quality to 'Salt and Sugar Look the Same' that sounds as if Koh and An are trying to uncover memories without offering too many clues. They wrote the album remotely, shuttling ideas back and forth between Los Angeles and Berlin, but connected the dots between shared experiences of being Korean American in California. And the album's linking thread is incense, that's referenced throughout: on 'Lemongrass Citronella', they capture the pungent odor with ruffled, hallucinatory instrumental loops and high pitched squeaks, signifying burning remains on 'Incense Holder' with Fennesz-like bit-crushed crackles, and the sweet smell of sandalwood with naive synths on 'Sandalwood in the Summer'.
Elsewhere, the record is more tangible, slipping into instrumental folk on 'Besafe Airtel' and veering towards weightless West Coast new age on 'Somewhere in Time'. But Koh and An sound most confident when they're walking on the astral plane, concocting hypnagogic slowcore on the swooning 'Can't Stand In The Past' or floating up to the clouds on the wooly title track.
Boomkat Product Review:
Hazy and hypnotic, Tim Koh and Sun An's collaborative debut is a collection of 18 short sketches that blur fingerpicked American Primitive with mangled samples and distorted ambience.
There's a bleary-eyed quality to 'Salt and Sugar Look the Same' that sounds as if Koh and An are trying to uncover memories without offering too many clues. They wrote the album remotely, shuttling ideas back and forth between Los Angeles and Berlin, but connected the dots between shared experiences of being Korean American in California. And the album's linking thread is incense, that's referenced throughout: on 'Lemongrass Citronella', they capture the pungent odor with ruffled, hallucinatory instrumental loops and high pitched squeaks, signifying burning remains on 'Incense Holder' with Fennesz-like bit-crushed crackles, and the sweet smell of sandalwood with naive synths on 'Sandalwood in the Summer'.
Elsewhere, the record is more tangible, slipping into instrumental folk on 'Besafe Airtel' and veering towards weightless West Coast new age on 'Somewhere in Time'. But Koh and An sound most confident when they're walking on the astral plane, concocting hypnagogic slowcore on the swooning 'Can't Stand In The Past' or floating up to the clouds on the wooly title track.
Boomkat Product Review:
Hazy and hypnotic, Tim Koh and Sun An's collaborative debut is a collection of 18 short sketches that blur fingerpicked American Primitive with mangled samples and distorted ambience.
There's a bleary-eyed quality to 'Salt and Sugar Look the Same' that sounds as if Koh and An are trying to uncover memories without offering too many clues. They wrote the album remotely, shuttling ideas back and forth between Los Angeles and Berlin, but connected the dots between shared experiences of being Korean American in California. And the album's linking thread is incense, that's referenced throughout: on 'Lemongrass Citronella', they capture the pungent odor with ruffled, hallucinatory instrumental loops and high pitched squeaks, signifying burning remains on 'Incense Holder' with Fennesz-like bit-crushed crackles, and the sweet smell of sandalwood with naive synths on 'Sandalwood in the Summer'.
Elsewhere, the record is more tangible, slipping into instrumental folk on 'Besafe Airtel' and veering towards weightless West Coast new age on 'Somewhere in Time'. But Koh and An sound most confident when they're walking on the astral plane, concocting hypnagogic slowcore on the swooning 'Can't Stand In The Past' or floating up to the clouds on the wooly title track.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Hazy and hypnotic, Tim Koh and Sun An's collaborative debut is a collection of 18 short sketches that blur fingerpicked American Primitive with mangled samples and distorted ambience.
There's a bleary-eyed quality to 'Salt and Sugar Look the Same' that sounds as if Koh and An are trying to uncover memories without offering too many clues. They wrote the album remotely, shuttling ideas back and forth between Los Angeles and Berlin, but connected the dots between shared experiences of being Korean American in California. And the album's linking thread is incense, that's referenced throughout: on 'Lemongrass Citronella', they capture the pungent odor with ruffled, hallucinatory instrumental loops and high pitched squeaks, signifying burning remains on 'Incense Holder' with Fennesz-like bit-crushed crackles, and the sweet smell of sandalwood with naive synths on 'Sandalwood in the Summer'.
Elsewhere, the record is more tangible, slipping into instrumental folk on 'Besafe Airtel' and veering towards weightless West Coast new age on 'Somewhere in Time'. But Koh and An sound most confident when they're walking on the astral plane, concocting hypnagogic slowcore on the swooning 'Can't Stand In The Past' or floating up to the clouds on the wooly title track.
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