Published
Tue, Aug 10, 2021, 22:46
- Due in October, the ten-track LP is reportedly influenced by Morton Subotnick and Ben Vida.
Daniel Martin-McCormick, a New York producer formerly known as Ital who now goes by Relaxer, is releasing an album on Planet Mu for the first time since 2014.
Concealer is a synth-heavy work that touches on experimental techno and house music with guest appearances from Kahee Jeong and Emilie Weibel. Due on October 15th, the ten-track LP carries influences from Morton Subotnick and Ben Vida.
In a statement, Martin-McCormick, founder of the Lovers Rock label and former co-director of Sustain-Release, describes the sounds on the album as "resonant." These include "sounds disappearing into a field, or being obscured, or crumbling, or being subsumed." Thanks to digital tools, these sounds have a "sickly, shiny dimensionality which is a little (a lot?) un-human," he said. "This decoupling from the human-ness of sound means the sounds can speak in their own special way. Of course, all sounds can speak in their way, but a vivid, digital, melty synth speaks in a way that feels more autonomous, or less tied to historical/encultured musical gestures. It hovers in the air and melts and glides. It's a little gross."
Martin-McCormick's last release on Planet Mu was the 2014 album Endgame as Ital. As Relaxer, his recent releases include Hedonic Fatigue from 2020 and Coconut Grove from 2019. Read our review of that latter album. For more on Martin-McCormick, revisit our 2016 feature on his Lovers Rock label.
Listen to "Mello" off Concealer.
Tracklist
01. Let The Walls Drip feat. Kahee Jeong
02. Mello
03. Narcissus By The Pool
04. The Dusk Singers
05. Traps And Lures
06. Excision In Androgyne
07. Island Life feat. Emilie Weibel
08. Helical Phase Secreting
09. Twins
10. Concealer
Planet Mu will release Concealer on October 15th, 2021.
