The New Monday – Shigeto
Originally posted on the S&R blog.
Thump. Thump. Thump. Thump. So goes “Detroit, Pt. II”, opening the sonic journey through what can only be described as a psychedelic electronic jazz funk experience. By the time the sax kicks in, it’s too late to back out through the musical excursion your ears are begging you go continue. Onward and upward, they say, while the mystical blend of old and new dances around the temporal lobe like a wave of intrigue, removing the ability to prevent from bobbing up and down with the never ending and never wavering beats that glisten and punctuate the LP. Rarely before has an album cover so perfectly encapsulated the music contained behind it’s visage. This one, a purple bookstore one might expect to play the same smooth tones heard in the background, smudged and distorted by machine. Each track brings less and less of the organic origins as the artificial begins to take over. Once “Don’t Trip” begins it’s all over – it’s been lost to the digital world, and nothing could be closer to perfection. But as “When We Low” returns us back to our original seats, in full upright position, we are back in the bookstore, violet and hazy, ready to reawaken to the world we used to know, now with a new sense of perspective. Last Monday this was all unknown. This is the new Monday.
Check out Shigeto’s The New Monday on Spotify or Apple Music.
And check out Mike Wohl on Spotify and Apple Music and Soundcloud!