Jlin - Akoma
Jlin - Akoma
It’s been a good year for electronic music so far. First Burial, then Squarepusher, and now Jlin. The best of the best are putting out interesting records. Lucky me.
Jlin is the queen of that chaotic skittering, drum-heavy style of electronica known as footwork. Or I guess it’s post-footwork now, yikes. It’s been such a long time since I was originally posting on this blog that I guess footwork isn’t the hot new thing anymore. Still, there’s no denying that Jlin is staking out new territory in every release.
She has a way of giving her compositions a quality of the eternal. Every track contains multitudes. Ideas upon ideas. Unlike most electronic music, nothing here stays in the same place for very long. There’s no repetition. We linger in one place only long enough to get across an idea. And then we’re off. We’re somewhere else entirely.
The drums and the bass on this record are immaculate. This is so well recorded and produced that I can hear the dust rising from the snares, synthesized or not.
Streaming below via Bandcamp.
Highlights: Borealis • Iris • Sodalite
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