"IF YOU WANT A VISION OF THE FUTURE, IMAGINE CRAP 808 SAMPLES STAMPING ON A HUMAN FACE- FOREVER"
We’ve been making noise about Laurel Halo’s music for some time here at AE - last year’s King Felix was among our favourite records of 2010. But with her new EPs Hour Logic and Antenna it feels as though she’s taken a significant step forward again. There’s been a lot of talk lately around the use of synth sounds more readily associated with the beginnings of electronic music, especially in the context of the current vogue for chatter around Retromania. But what set her music (and that of some of her closest contemporaries) apart are the themes it explores, most of which couldn’t have been approached in the same way any time but now. It’s especially concerned with notions of connectivity, the net, science and modern society, all delivered with real weight and excellent production. Hour Logic is particularly physically involving, its surface synth drones often accompanied by a heavy dancefloor undertow. It’s out now on Hippos In Tanks, and comes thoroughly recommended.
I recently interviewed Laurel for The Quietus, where we spoke about Detroit techno, science, and why her music’s not retrofuturistic. Read the interview here.
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Rory
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