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Blursome
AGE

Album 2016 on Locus Recordings label
Dance (Experimental, Dark Ambient, Techno)

"The eight tracks of Blursome's Age, on the other hand, drive straight to the beat in ways Wehbie never has. "Pretty Voice" pushes into a jarring four-on-the-floor rhythm before Wehbie parcels it into fractions. The tricky stutters and samples are strong enough to intoxicate. The repeating cycles of "Not Like This" harness jungle and trance in one brief, ebullient phrase. Even the functionally named "Intro" sorts through a web of tangled-and-mangled sources to find and emphasize a menacing, robotic meter. It swallows the voices around it every time it arrives. These are the most club-ready sequences of Wehbie's admittedly small discography, and you imagine them vibrating the walls of a big room, not the shells of puny home speakers. But Blursome has never been a mere beat junkie, and these songs' accessories also seem like shutters to the world, or ways to shut attention out even as booming bass invites listeners in. The samples and the static, the effects and the echoes mute the maul. Wehbie has always emphasized the tension between electrifying beats and engulfing textures. Age amplifies that contrast like never before, allowing us to listen in on the private debates of a brilliantly bifurcated mind." - Grayson Currin review from Independent Weekly

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