I recently reviewed Vancouver music-scene mainstay Phil Western’s latest release, Longform, for the Straight. In the review, which you can read here, I described the double LP as “an exercise in what he is arguably best at: namely, hypnotic electro built from lush layers of synthesizer tones over a variety of creatively deployed but generally unobtrusive rhythms. The focus here isn’t so much on the beats as on the often psychedelic interaction of samples and live instrumentation.”
Preview the album below, via Bandcamp:
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