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70
The L.A. beatmaker turns aggressive on his fourth album—dialing up the distortion, flooding his beats with overdriven synths, and pushing anxious moods into the red.
6mo
70
The celebration of the clunky, earthy, and imperfect human touch, coupled with the equally limited and flawed production tools, reminds me of the avant-garde principle of returning art to the artist. For someone who saw his once-underground scene get eaten alive by bots, Shlohmo was well-equipped to make an album that successfully puts him back in command.
6mo
I adore Shlohmo's work, but despite that, I can objectively say that "REPULSOR" is an excellent album. I like the sound duality of the record. Henry has been famous throughout his career for his ability to create a cohesive electronic foundation, with successfully screwed-in screws in the form of witch house, glitch-hop, ambient, and other adjacent stylistic directions. On "REPULSOR," he does the same thing. He doesn't divide the record by stylistic directions; ... read more
Shlohmo's work in recent years has shifted away from Wonky to something a bit messier and a little more untamed - which I suppose these kinds of sites are calling Witch House. It's a bit hard to define Witch House in a post-King Night world, now that we've realized there's more to the genre than chorus'd-out hypersaw leads and pseudo-reese basses also built from hypersaws, and I'll confidently call REPULSOR emblematic of this new state of the genre, even further ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | Eggtooth 1:15 | |
| 2 | Chore Boy 2:49 feat. SALEM | |
| 3 | The Thing 4:44 | |
| 4 | Resin 3:19 | |
| 5 | Fistful of Dirt 3:48 | |
| 6 | Henry's Demise 2:45 | |
| 7 | Forever 3:58 | |
| 8 | Light In A Tunnel 3:03 | |
| 9 | Antivenom 4:10 with Corbin | |
| 10 | If U Ran The World 4:59 | |
| 11 | It Could Take A Lifetime 2:47 | |
| 12 | Lola's Theme 4:29 |
Total Length: 42 minutes
