Welcome return for Walls on Kompakt with a ship-shape EP that heralds their sophomore album for the label. The UK-based duo of Sam Willis and Alessio 'Banjo Or Freakout' Natalizia have hit upon a winning formula, combining shoegazey songwriting with effervescent electronic textures rooted in house and techno - it's pop ambient, basically, so no surprise that they've found a home away from home in Cologne. With 'Sunporch' they go for an even more epic sound - Alessio's choirboy vocals looped and layered across Harmonia-style arpeggios and a mid-paced, nicely rickety but unrelenting 4/4 - while the reprise, a separate track unto itself, is mellifluous ambient techno in the time-honoured Kompakt style. 'Tight Spots' is a craftier bugger, its synth lines menacing as well as seductive, its neo-schaffel rhythm and surrounding FX conjuring a very real sense of unease. Sumptuously melodic and cinematic nonetheless, it's up there with the best Walls have ever produced, and bodes well for that album.
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Welcome return for Walls on Kompakt with a ship-shape EP that heralds their sophomore album for the label. The UK-based duo of Sam Willis and Alessio 'Banjo Or Freakout' Natalizia have hit upon a winning formula, combining shoegazey songwriting with effervescent electronic textures rooted in house and techno - it's pop ambient, basically, so no surprise that they've found a home away from home in Cologne. With 'Sunporch' they go for an even more epic sound - Alessio's choirboy vocals looped and layered across Harmonia-style arpeggios and a mid-paced, nicely rickety but unrelenting 4/4 - while the reprise, a separate track unto itself, is mellifluous ambient techno in the time-honoured Kompakt style. 'Tight Spots' is a craftier bugger, its synth lines menacing as well as seductive, its neo-schaffel rhythm and surrounding FX conjuring a very real sense of unease. Sumptuously melodic and cinematic nonetheless, it's up there with the best Walls have ever produced, and bodes well for that album.
Welcome return for Walls on Kompakt with a ship-shape EP that heralds their sophomore album for the label. The UK-based duo of Sam Willis and Alessio 'Banjo Or Freakout' Natalizia have hit upon a winning formula, combining shoegazey songwriting with effervescent electronic textures rooted in house and techno - it's pop ambient, basically, so no surprise that they've found a home away from home in Cologne. With 'Sunporch' they go for an even more epic sound - Alessio's choirboy vocals looped and layered across Harmonia-style arpeggios and a mid-paced, nicely rickety but unrelenting 4/4 - while the reprise, a separate track unto itself, is mellifluous ambient techno in the time-honoured Kompakt style. 'Tight Spots' is a craftier bugger, its synth lines menacing as well as seductive, its neo-schaffel rhythm and surrounding FX conjuring a very real sense of unease. Sumptuously melodic and cinematic nonetheless, it's up there with the best Walls have ever produced, and bodes well for that album.
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Welcome return for Walls on Kompakt with a ship-shape EP that heralds their sophomore album for the label. The UK-based duo of Sam Willis and Alessio 'Banjo Or Freakout' Natalizia have hit upon a winning formula, combining shoegazey songwriting with effervescent electronic textures rooted in house and techno - it's pop ambient, basically, so no surprise that they've found a home away from home in Cologne. With 'Sunporch' they go for an even more epic sound - Alessio's choirboy vocals looped and layered across Harmonia-style arpeggios and a mid-paced, nicely rickety but unrelenting 4/4 - while the reprise, a separate track unto itself, is mellifluous ambient techno in the time-honoured Kompakt style. 'Tight Spots' is a craftier bugger, its synth lines menacing as well as seductive, its neo-schaffel rhythm and surrounding FX conjuring a very real sense of unease. Sumptuously melodic and cinematic nonetheless, it's up there with the best Walls have ever produced, and bodes well for that album.