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...released this record with a string of qualifiers trailing in its wake: this was not a full album, he insisted. Instead, it’s a mini-album, a soundtrack of transition meant to connect its predecessor, “Surrounded by Silence,” with future efforts. Herren??s caveats distract listeners from what is perhaps the most honest way to look at this album: as a reaction. “Security Screenings” clocks in at a healthy 40 minutes, but displays a wider palette of sounds than many records much longer. Last year?...
...small band on the new Savath & Savalas album, his abstract tendencies lead to constructive conflict. The original songs, recorded with live horns, keys and drums, are hollowed-out, taken apart and re-stitched until they’re nothing more than a series of textures floating dreamily. Herren??s additions—subtle crackles, blips and melodic tweaks—give potentially evocative recordings a strikingly dull sheen, like tarnished silver. His electronic smudges obscure Puyuelo and musicians just enough to make it all a lazy game of finding the ghost in the shell...
Perhaps the ultimate appeal of Scott Herren??s music is how he always gets things wrong. Not purposely irreverent or consciously malfunctioning, his work simply sounds half-executed with an air of open experimentation. Under his Prefuse 73 alias, he chops Hip-Hop beats in a manner more akin to Mille Plateaux glitch artists like Farben and Vladislav Delay than to DJ Premier. But in doing so, he cuts off their potential to groove, making his compositions as involuted and intricate as the best of Warp’s back catalogue...
...songs on “Apropa’t” are distinctly more compelling than Herren??s beat-driven material. As Prefuse, he carves useless sculptures out of head-nod functionalism; as Savath & Savalas, his explorations turn “real” music into dense head music. Given the studio treatment, mournful songs like “Te Quiero Pero Por Otro Lado…” and “Um Girassol de Cor de Seu Cabelo” become confused and hazy, blurred beneath raindrops...
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