Muted Noises

There’s more than a hint of the old-school about the debut EP from Frankfurt duo not even noticed. Breakbeats and acid swirl across these six tightly-produced monsters. The onset of the pandemic had a big impact on the pair, with much more time in the studio to get detail-obsessed, but also that unsettling feeling of not knowing what’s going to happen next. It comes across in the music, with on the one hand razor-sharp hard-stepping beats and paranoiac vocal samples, and on the other blissful spaced-out moments. The EP may indeed have one foot in the past, but this is forward-looking, hopeful, and just begging to be played on a proper system.