Via App - 7 Headed

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  • Brooklyn producer Dylan Scheer's unique way with samples has been mentioned before. Most recently, Max Pearl pointed out her "alien sound design and mind-bending sample work" in the Via App Breaking through feature, and she lives up to it on this five-tracker for 1080p. 7 Headed is very much a continuation of the moods and techniques Scheer explored on 2014's Dangerous Game, along with a sharpened sense of groove. Opener "Baby K Interaction" does a neat job of expressing this improved focus, beginning in a wispy, almost jazzy form before narrowing with surefooted bass chords and a snappy vocal sample. The croaking, scattershot early rounds of "7 Headed" are abrasive, but Scheer soon warms up the wintry vista with interlocking chatter and FX and gently lumbering low-end. "Sunkissed" is the EP's trickiest listen, though even its deathly kick drum and snarling chords are counterweighted by goofy keys. The constant rush of "Poison"'s background textures make it sound unusually fluid, though there's a swarm of ideas, many of them pretty spiky, battling for attention just beneath. The foreboding keys, bass synth hydraulics and deliciously warped vocal motif of closer "Set You" puts it up there with "Baby K Interaction" as another highlight from this rapidly developing talent.
  • Tracklist
      A1 Baby K Interaction A2 7 Headed B1 Sunkissed B2 Poison B3 Set You
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