Pictureplane
Dark Rift

Lovepump United
out August 4th

59/100
[Rating Scale]

[rating:59/100]
It takes a minute to understand how to judge this kind of music. Samples, mixes and mashes, soft, barely there vocals entrenched in noise and layered beneath sounds borrowed from what was thought to be obscurity. What turned out to be merely buried underground and revered with certain concessions about its ultimate artistic validity. Everyone has an influence. Everyone has an inspiration. Nothing is ever original, as is said. Art travels in circles, reconstituting itself through the eyes, ears, and hands of another. There are tweaks and adjustments; an infusing of times, talents and ideas. But underlying, the foundations laid down by others are always to be found. Travis Egedy brings us an example of this kind of circular art with Dark Rift, his current LP under the title of Pictureplane. Quite a few people seem to be taken with this offering of generally relentless and spirited electronica. It’s simple and uncluttered. Each track free flows into the other, the connective tissue apparent in Egedy’s methods of mixing. While it could be argued that the entire album feels like one long song, there are some stand outs that manage to break the constancy. Continue reading →