Jordan Reyes - Close

Jordan Reyes - Close"Making music on the synthesizer is an activity of erasure for me. Ive been sober for over 5 years at this point, but I think a lot about addiction still, and how that impulse, habit, biochemistry has warped since I quit drinking and drugging. I frequently ask myself why did I bring myself so close to oblivion? Well, to forget the pain of being alive. I dont feel the pain quite so constantly these days, but I do have a fixation on bringing myself to

then taken to Greenhouse Studios in Reykjavik and mixed by Ben Frost

mesmerising and utterly unique

the lyrical theme of an individual’s relationships and struggles with forces larger than one’s self emerges

Föllakzoid grows via depuration

After numerous trips around the globe he composed and produced a collection of his own albums (which Medical released a hand-picked selection in 2015)

The pedigree of this piece includes Thursday Afternoon

to very little interest

the soliloquy is killer bee

thrashing guitars and absurdist lyricism

multi-layered pop which gradually revealed its intricacies over repeated listens

When Paul Weller announced The Style Council's arrival in March 1983

this is a Shabazz Palaces song so the beat sounds like a riff on Panda Bear distilled through a bent futuristic boom-bap prism