Bookworms & Steve Summers - Confused House 1

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  • Despite their shared patronage by L.I.E.S., Steve Summers (AKA Jason Letkiewicz) and Bookworms (AKA Nik Dawson) don't seem like natural partners. The former is a prolific, no-nonsense purveyor of twisted throwbacks, while Dawson has so far offered house in the form of corroded, percussive psychedelia. They're somewhat similar, but hardly the sort of duo one would expect to make a record this otherworldly, the debut for Letkiewicz's Confused House label. A sense of psychedelia is present—each track unfolds with a kind of loose, dreamlike logic—but the producers' dance floor instincts are toned down, and the results reach into almost ambient territory. On "Possible Worlds," for example, arching chords and percolating acidic synths nearly swamp the brittle, tapping drums; "Unknown Number"'s silvery gusts form a pristinely sparkling counterpart to its anemic rattle. And "Let It Run" drifts off on a placid bassline, which lazily nudges the warbling synthetics forward, caked in sleep.
  • Tracklist
      A Possible Worlds B1 Unknown Number B2 Let It Run
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