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Renowned glitch-hop producer Scott Herren 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...
Prefuse’s melodies are barely articulated, coloring his beats in two or three translucent shades. Herren clearly has little melodic training. Accompanied by singer Eva Puyuelo and a 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...
Talking to Herren at length only shows how seriously he takes his art. “Keep your TV off!” he admonishes. “You have everything you need [at Harvard] to feed your brain...
Listening to music, Herren says, “should be a more organic process, the way the artist designed...
With a performance that achieved his goal of “giving people the song” before embellishing and enhancing the already complex music, Herren seems to have found the perfect way to present his music live...