ISORINNE

WAVE STUFF

Origin Peoples

OP008

ISORINNE

WAVE STUFF

Origin Peoples

OP008

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ARTIST
ISORINNE
TITLE
WAVE STUFF
LABEL
Origin Peoples
CAT NO.
OP008
FORMAT
LP
RELEASE DATE
    04/05/2018
TERRITORY
WORLDWIDE
BARCODE
197188521561
GENRE
Ambient Electronic Experimental
FEATURING
Isorinne

TRACK LISTING

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  1. A1. Wave 1  ▾
  2. A2. Wave 2  ▾
  3. A3. Wave 3  ▾
  4. A4. Wave 4  ▾
  5. A5. Wave 5  ▾
  6. B1. Wave 6  ▾
  7. B2. Wave 7  ▾
  8. B3. Wave 8  ▾

SALES NOTES

Wave Stu might just be the Platonic ideal of icy, emotionally fraught synth-pop. On his debut release for Origin Peoples, Stockholm-based musician Michel Isorinne puts paragons of this style like Orchestral Manoeuvres In e Dark in his slipstream. Laced with spoken-word passages from films and television shows, Wave Stu weaves a loose tale about the nature of time, physics, and mortality that can be summarized by the key phrase, uttered by a woman scientist somewhere throughout the album, “magic is in the molecules...”

Isorinne essentially creates introverted minimalist symphonies in which sprightly synth leads peacefully coexist with melancholy, drone-y undercurrents. Throughout the record, Isorinne's melodies bear a fruitful contrast between the morose and the jubilant. He repeatedly places exceptionally delicate and beautiful tunes amid subliminal waves of pensiveness. It truly is a masterly balancing act. e zenith of this approach is Side A's closing track, in which gorgeous countermelodies intertwine like lovers on a tropical beach while a pistoning rhythm pumps up the libido. It's instant paradisiacal bliss.

Side B contains Wave Stu 's most cheerful, uptempo track yet it never bursts into full-on euphoria. Elsewhere, Isorinne reverts back to more somber moods: an eerie, methodical chiller full of quiet wonderment and subdued sparkle reminiscent of Casino Versus Japan, Plone, and others of their gnomic ilk; a low-key anthem in which '70s Vangelis grandiosi meets the workmanlike bass-synth chug of Ulrich Schnauss; an elegiac piece that conjures an intimate majes ; a bass-heavy dirge festooned with forlorn wisps of melodiousness.

The complex, paradoxical happy/sad pendulum at the heart of Isorinne's music lends Wave Stu a tingly resonance that will reward repeat listens. Please welcome an extravagantly rich synth-pop classic.

Published: 12th April 2018

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