- With 2012's Unicursal Hexagram LP, Jahilliya Fields was established as a cosmic outlier on the L.I.E.S roster, making transportive synthesizer music that avoided the label's more typical scuffed house. The Brooklyn-based producer, otherwise known as Matt Morandi, has grown further into his sinuous sound with the Pleasure Sentence EP, balancing a sense of sprawl with lush attention to detail.
Opener "Aeon Aeon" is the extraterrestrial centerpiece, clocking in at over 14 minutes of swollen pads and undulating high frequencies. Seemingly indebted to the bit-crushed journeys of Hieroglyphic Being, it shifts from contemplative to bellowing in discrete three-minute chunks, which coalesce into a kaleidoscopic epic. The 40-second "2013" functions as a distorted palate cleanser and leads into "Turned On Type," in which phlegmy pads unfurl around a piercing melody. "Pleasure Sentence" could be a Konono Nº1 track, lumbering around hollow percussion and twanging guitar, but unfortunately ending before the slippery arrangement really sticks. It leaves you craving more unorthodox earworms from this promising producer.
TracklistA1 Aeon Aeon
A2 2013
B1 Turned On Type
B2 Pleasure Sentence