- With their Dilate LP from early this year, Leeds five-piece Vessels completed a transition from guitar-focused post-rock group to purveyors of textured, build-and-release electronics. This EP features reworks of album tracks "Echo In" and "Elliptic," with Ripperton tackling the former's blissful synths and skittering percussion and Alex Banks and Barker & Baumecker doing their own versions of the latter.
Ripperton trebles the original three-plus minutes of "Echo In" in his bounding, spectral rework. It starts out on a drowsy, blues-touched note that evokes The KLF's Chill Out, then settles into a dialogue between haunted vocal clips and a sturdy, rolling bassline. Alex Banks adds a heady dose of muscle and menace to "Elliptic," though the original's luxuriant qualities are still present in the occasionally discordant keys and industrial roars. Initially, Barker & Baumecker's sparse remix recalls mid-'00s Border Community, though the addition of a euphoric, slow-build bass hum saves it from imitation.
TracklistA1 Echo In (Ripperton Remix)
A2 Elliptic (Alex Banks Remix)
B1 Elliptic (Barker & Baumecker Remix)