- We first heard from Klaus on Mount Kimbie's RA podcast, before he was snapped up by R&S for a double-track EP of hushed, miniature electronics, not dissimilar to label mate Airhead. He's gone relatively silent since, though he's quietly dropped this self-released vinyl-only release featuring two more hand-scribbled missives, blurring the lines between electric and acoustic.
It's hard to tell if "Neph" is freeform or quantized, and therein lies its greatest strength. A haphazard beat ebbs in and out, dragging in rattling bass frequencies with it, as heavily manipulated chords flicker in the fog, finished off by wheezing horns hauled in from some worn-out jazz record. Things are decidedly less domestic bliss on "Phi," which teeters on a diaphanous bed of choral vocals before a lopsided beat juts out violently, tossed back in and out like a boomerang. It's a harsh inversion of the inviting bass embrace of "Neph," a little bit early James Blake with its seemingly random trills of scintillating found sound, and a little bit Peverelist with its unstable rumbling.