on clear yellow vinyl - The first installment in our 4213 quartet of Obliq seven inches, the debut of Crix Madine after their solid mix on Multicast's "La Honda" a couple of week's back. "Yori" is heads up luscious: bright musical box melody and brooding emotional sweeps usher in a gracious beats workout, compressed and deceptively simple but entirely memorable. "Low Level Thinking" begins with a real calling motif of spirit like voices, and has the bustling break of the inveterate terrestrial, earthy but nourishing. The effect is impressive, not so much intelligent as inspiring, minimal yet with no stinting on genuine feeling...
Obliq newcomer Crix Madine blasts in from the north with this solid debut release. “Yori” is a poly-rhythmic sound experience where the percussion slips and slides along over dreamy and static-driven melody lines. Half-way thru the listener will find himself/herself engulfed in an “analogue bubblebath” of sublime synth lines and the metallic thunder of disjointed beats.
On the b-side, “Alpine Refuge” may invoke the imagination of overlooking deep alpine valleys and a vista of snow-capped peaks can be seen through the trees. It’s a seamless meld of organic electro-beauty, combining an almost left-field hip-hop aesthetic with melodic and crystalline bass-pads. The track is majestic in nature and leaves the listener with optimism.
