While many of Matthew Dear's 2009 singles under his Audion alias showcase a newfound obsession with restraint, understatement, and barely there dynamics, “Push” runs in the exact opposite direction and never looks back.
A classic Audion track in the “Mouth to Mouth” mold, the aptly named “Push” traffics in unapologetically anthemic builds, precision calibrated to make’em go crazy on the dancefloor. Relentlessly chugging rhythms, buoyant blips of keyboard, room-swallowing low-end swells, and wave after wave of ecstatic climax. Sometimes, a great track is as simple as that.
Audion is currently wrapping up the US leg of his Hecatomb tour, finishing on December 5 as part of Ghostly's Ten-Year Anniversary concert at Art Basil, Miami.
Buy Audion’s “Push” now at The Ghostly Store.
Stream: Audion - Push
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The fact that Matthew Dear’s second-ever release as Jabberjaw (and his first for Spectral Sound) is called The Garden of Eden is no mistake—the music reflects a back-to-basics approach, displaying bracingly minimal textures and primal repetition in a way that makes Dear’s Jabberjaw alias unique.
"A Goat on Fire in the Garden of Eden" opens the EP on an absurdist note, as a gently scuffed kick drum gets company from a barnyard’s worth of odd, rhythmic sounds, from a slowed-down glass harmonica to a monster with the hiccups. It gets noisy in there, but Jabberjaw keeps things loose and funky underneath the polyrhythmic melee. "The Connie Shake" is a shaggy-limbed take on soul, featuring a pared-down beat, some lite-jazz keys, and an eerie police siren. "Safety Flirt" is The Garden of Eden EP's strangest and most compelling moment, dripping tiny squelches and snare hits into the spaces within a sly, slinky micro-beat. The song gains momentum as the off-beats accumulate, turning a simple minimal house beat into a hissing, burbling serpent of a track.
Buy The Garden of Eden EP at The Ghostly Store.
Here's a stream of Jabberjaw's new track "The Connie Shake":
Jabberjaw - The Connie Shake
