Lutto Lento - Dog Leaf

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  • Since his migration from tape to vinyl with last year's FTD001, Lutto Lento has hardly toned down his weirdness. Releases for Transatlantyk and Where To Now? have continued to plot a course between lo-fi house and mischievous sample collage. Dog Leaf is no different—on "Anika," it even tops FTD001's sampling of Enya with a brief appearance from Dido. Only where Enya was used in an oddly charming house waltz ("Sirena"), here Lento buries his kitsch gesture under an avalanche of dissonant strings and punishing drums. The Polish producer has been this puzzling before, but rarely this bleak. The ingredients of "Dog Leaf"—distorted drums, tense drones—wouldn't sound out of place on some raging industrial techno release, but Lento chops and scrambles them to the edge of incoherence. The effect is unsettling, particularly when an extended lounge-jazz sample saunters into view. On "Gang Dog Ghosts," whistling wind and a sinister guitar motif add to the sense of despair. The whole thing peaks with "Mantle Of Strength," whose titular phrase is looped under a wailing choir straight out of The Omen. The fact that its pistoning techno drums don't quite hang together makes it all the more terrifying.
  • Tracklist
      A1 Dog Leaf A2 Gang Dog Ghosts B1 Mantle Of Strength B2 Anika
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