What a beauty. The gorgeous, endlessly inventive new album, from Rival Consoles, aka Ryan Lee West, invokes a kind of synaesthesia: you can almost hear colours. It’s textured, layer upon layer, like a kind of complex tromp l’oeil painting in sound. Tracks like ‘Catherine’, ‘Known Shapes’ and the stunning, shimmering ‘Soft Gradient Beckons’ appear likeContinue reading “Album Review: Rival Consoles- Landscape From Memory”
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New Release: Rival Consoles- Jupiter
Photo by Eva Vermandel Jupiter, the brand new single from Rival Consoles, sees the shapeshifter producer Ryan Lee West continue on his singular, spine-tingling electronic trajectory. It’s bold and beautiful, woozy and disorienting, full of hypnotic waves of distortion. It could easily soundtrack the rebuilding of our beleaguered planet, brick by brick. The forthcoming ninthContinue reading “New Release: Rival Consoles- Jupiter”