Dust
On her third album for Hyperdub, Laurel Halo continues to resist classification and deflect interpretation by treating the human voice like a synthetic material to be molded and shattered.
Laurel Halo’s mesmerising third album occupies a liminal space, between acoustic and electronic, light and shade, coherence and messiness.
Following several releases of moody experimental techno, including 2013 full-length Chance of Rain and 2015 double-EP In Situ (issued by Honest Jon's), shapeshifting producer Laurel Halo returned to vocal-based works (as well as her previous home, Hyperdub) with 2017 album Dust.
Laurel Halo's Dust gathers the core componentry of her previous records and couples them within a new and fascinating design, breathing so easily at times its beats are almost loose.
Never one to box herself into a specific form, Laurel Halo has shed skin and added new wrinkles to her chameleonic practice with each releas...
With Dust, Laurel Halo lays stakes in a perfect middle ground between the bent art-pop, thumping house, and maximalist musique-concrete-as-IDM of her prior work.
Laurel Halo is an enigmatic force. Since 2012, she has released two albums combining the synth-tinged bass weight of early Detroit techno, modernist
Another helping of strangeness and beauty on the Berlin-based US electronica artist’s third album
A confounding, capricious album that dances with the freedom of having nothing to prove.