Drvg Cvltvre - When Dawn Came
The esoteric stylings of Vincent Koreman, or Drvg Cvltvre, are fittingly trippy and infused with an acidic synthesis. The Drvg Cvltvre project often delivers trance-like tunes that upheave your understanding of what electronic music can be. Drvg Cvltvre's latest release comes courtesy of the New York Haunted imprint. When Dawn Came , combines a plethora of uncouth electronic music techniques that root themselves in the DIY scene, only this time, the distinctive sound of Drvg Cvltvre is uprooted and taken in a fresh direction.
When Dawn Came is like a blank canvas, Drvg Cvltvre uses his same paints to fashion a new work of art, generating vastly different outcomes through the same techniques. The timbre of sounds Drvg Cvltvre prefers is darker and more robotic. This release captures a resident tone that aims to emulate the more natural sounds of three syntheses. Processed vocals and chugging percussion lay the bedrock over which larger-than-life synthesises emit both a glass clarity and an electrical rawness that, alongside the artwork, paint pictures of an unclear divinity. Take the title track, which uses unorthodox mixing to bury the vocals underneath a nebula of synthesis. The melody has a peculiar soft sharpness, like nettles that only irritate once acknowledged. At the same time, its drowsiness invokes the feeling of slipping away.
However, the most significant departure from Drvg Cvltvre's is 'Trapped Under Ice', which is much more conceptual than Koreman's previous works. The horse synthesised bells so skyward, ultimately resonating into a wobbling fluorescent drone before shuttering back down to earth. Its incandescent highs contrasted with minimal percussion emulate the dichotomy between the wistful opener and brooding closer, effectively acting as a fresh melon sorbet palate cleanser between the opener and closer, projecting new life into each track individually and somehow gelling them together into a cohesive whole. 'When Dawn Came' contrasts with the record's finale, 'Till Dawn Came Crawling Up The Stairs', which reverses all that mixing, transforming the glacial swing and numbing softness of the record opener into a much more metallic, unnaturalistic song. The vocals have more presence while the percussion is compressed with distortion, and harsh noise invests the whole track, filling it with aggression and a sense of anarchism, completing the cycle from light to dark, keeping you engaged with the record’s contrast.
Tracklist:
When Dawn Came
Trapped Under Ice
Till Dawn Came Crawling Up The Stairs
Label: New York Haunted
Drvg Cvltvre - When Dawn Came
