Despite having a name that sounds like a dodgy female Grime MC, Madalyn Merkey is actually the latest signing to Matthew Mondanile's (Ducktails) New Images label. She hails from Chicago and makes an exceptionally lush and woozy sound on 'Scent' that's instantly hit our pleasure centres. Essentially it's a mostly unstructured mass of rhythmic tape loops, lingering synth keys, palmed chords and vocoder coos gently dappled with FX, but that would be selling it far short. It's Ms. Merkey's dreamy taste for gauzy dissonance, and the way she'll patiently modulate the minimal ingredients to see where they take her that make this so, so endearing. To chat any more about it may damage its beautiful aura, so we'll just say that this is one of the most gorgeously innocent, uniquely detached and elemental offerings from the neo synth interzone that we've yet encountered. Fans of Dolphins Into The Future, Tomutonttu, Spencer Clark should definitely get acquainted.
