- Two very distinct Los Angeles producers combine forces on a gorgeously wounded downtempo club track.
- Maral and Lara Sarkissian use elements from their respective heritages (Iranian and Armenian) to infuse their styles of electronic music not only with an intensely personal feeling, like mourning for a past you never truly got to experience. On "entropy & kindness"—their first collaboration, and the latest in a series of self-released Maral singles—the two effortlessly combine their approaches over a track that slinks and sulks with the staggered movement of old dubstep, and the quaking percussion of Nine Inch Nails records.
Comparisons aside, each artist has their own distinctive sound, which shine throughly clearly on "entropy & kindness." Maral's thudding basslines provide a foundation for the the Armenian duduk, a signature of Sarkissian's work, which curls like wisps of smoke in the background. The clouds part with a brief appearance from an Iranian ney courtesy of Maral, and a voice saying "thank you" in Farsi. The mood remains ambiguous, but there's a comfort in these sounds, a lived-in reverence that crosses both Maral and Sarkissian's work.