Wave Stuff, by Isorinne

Wave Stuff

by Isorinne

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1.	Wave 1 02:46	buy track
2.	Wave 2 04:04	buy track
3.	Wave 3 04:25	buy track
4.	Wave 4 02:28	buy track
5.	Wave 5 05:19	buy track
6.	Wave 6 07:51	buy track
7.	Wave 7 06:51	buy track
8.	Wave 8 05:12	buy track

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Wave Stuff might just be the Platonic ideal of icy, emotionally fraught synth-pop. On his debut release for Origin Peoples, Stockholm-based musician Michel Isorinne puts paragons of this style like Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark in his slipstream. Laced with spoken-word passages from films and television shows, Wave Stuff weaves a loose tale about the nature of time, physics, and mortality that can be summarized by the key phrase, uttered by a woman scientist somewhere throughout the album, “magic is in the molecules...”

Isorinne essentially creates introverted minimalist symphonies in which sprightly synth leads peacefully coexist with melancholy, drone-y undercurrents. Throughout the record, Isorinne's melodies bear a fruitful contrast between the morose and the jubilant. He repeatedly places exceptionally delicate and beautiful tunes amid subliminal waves of pensiveness. It truly is a masterly balancing act. The zenith of this approach is Side A's closing track, in which gorgeous countermelodies intertwine like lovers on a tropical beach while a pistoning rhythm pumps up the libido. It's instant paradisiacal bliss.

Side B contains Wave Stuff's most cheerful, uptempo track yet it never bursts into full-on euphoria. Elsewhere, Isorinne reverts back to more somber moods: an eerie, methodical chiller full of quiet wonderment and subdued sparkle reminiscent of Casino Versus Japan, Plone, and others of their gnomic ilk; a low-key anthem in which '70s Vangelis grandiosity meets the workmanlike bass-synth chug of Ulrich Schnauss; an elegiac piece that conjures an intimate majesty; a bass-heavy dirge festooned with forlorn wisps of melodiousness.

The complex, paradoxical happy/sad pendulum at the heart of Isorinne's music lends Wave Stuff a tingly resonance that will reward repeat listens. Please welcome an extravagantly rich synth-pop classic.

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released May 7, 2018

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