ONE MONTH OFF

Tracklist: A side: One Month Off, The Wall B side: Cave Dwellings, Marker Shop, Viewpoint The third release for Stroboscopic Artefacts in 2014, SA22 is the new cut from Italian producer Chevel. ˜One Month Off™ is an EP built around the abstract themes of construction, starting with demolition and ending on perspective. Opening track ˜One Month Off™ combines a warm thump with skittering percussion. Ragged cymbals build pressure. As the track continues to strut, through insistence as much as confidence, it gives out. ˜The Wall™, next up, is perhaps misleadingly a more unsettled affair. There is little linear impetus, a panoply of syncopated beats and foreign noises from the undergrowth. This is a wall of multitudinous surface, a front concealing the unsettled and unsure within. ˜Cave Dwellings™ is a more organic construct, building from the traditional basics of a kick drum and hi hat. Like the opening number this is a confident piece, but the Caves resonate with greater darkness and menace. The kick squelches at the bottom, the snare drips; glistening echoes bound through the chamber. ˜Marker Shop™ is fourth up, uniting disparate urges and glorious moods. The beat is uncomfortable, and repeatedly gives way. The record closes on ˜Viewpoint™, a piece of warmer perspective. It is not, however, a calm scene: in many ways this is a view of something more unsettled than what has come before. It is both jungular and industrial, an uncompromising marriage of nature and noise. Chevel lands, then, on SA, with a discussion of construction and constructs. Out on March 31st.