easyeasylemonlemon Dissolves the Digital Self with ‘a selected demonstration of incomplete works (breakbeat ambient #3)’
With easyeasylemonlemon’s release, a selected demonstration of incomplete works (breakbeat ambient #3), the pulse of pure ambience never skips a beat; the waves of reverb crash over you, loosening all your knots through aural quiescence while the breakbeats reverberate emotion through the instrumental piece. Rather than forcing a feeling through your synapses, Callum McLean, the Cambridge-based artist and producer behind the project, lets his diaphanous progressions coax out what already lingers beneath the surface. It’s impossible for this track to melt into the background, for the way it absorbs your attention is equal to the way it distils tension, leaving you drifting inside a euphonic atmosphere. There’s sanctuary here, in the interplay between industrial textures and organic, washed-out synths, as if the piece itself is a dedication to IDM pioneers and the genre’s restless spirit. The digital era, our tangled relationships with each other and our screens, become themes that ripple through the full LP, evoke – a record born of isolation and retreat into the computer, echoing with the emotional charge of introspection and connection. If you let yourself sink into the complete LP, you’ll find the catharsis of sanctuary, the sound of someone making peace with the static […] The post easyeasylemonlemon Dissolves the Digital Self with ‘a selected demonstration of incomplete works (breakbeat ambient #3)’ appeared first on A&R Factory.

With easyeasylemonlemon’s release, a selected demonstration of incomplete works (breakbeat ambient #3), the pulse of pure ambience never skips a beat; the waves of reverb crash over you, loosening all your knots through aural quiescence while the breakbeats reverberate emotion through the instrumental piece. Rather than forcing a feeling through your synapses, Callum McLean, the Cambridge-based artist and producer behind the project, lets his diaphanous progressions coax out what already lingers beneath the surface. It’s impossible for this track to melt into the background, for the way it absorbs your attention is equal to the way it distils tension, leaving you drifting inside a euphonic atmosphere. There’s sanctuary here, in the interplay between industrial textures and organic, washed-out synths, as if the piece itself is a dedication to IDM pioneers and the genre’s restless spirit. The digital era, our tangled relationships with each other and our screens, become themes that ripple through the full LP, evoke – a record born of isolation and retreat into the computer, echoing with the emotional charge of introspection and connection. If you let yourself sink into the complete LP, you’ll find the catharsis of sanctuary, the sound of someone making peace with the static […]
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