Rainer Veil - Vanity

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After a 5 year pause for breath, Rainer Veil return with their debut full length for Modern Love; an immersive, kinematic tumble through electronic forms from hyper trance to tape dub experiments and loose polyrhythms - a summoning of ‘ardcore spirits in flux. Big RIYL: Photek, Caterina Barbieri, SND, Lee Gamble, Gábor Lázár...

A hypnotic soundworld tempered by weighty bass and angular construction, ‘Vanity’ marks a breaking away from the binds of overthinking, an embrace of imperfection. It’s a brighter set of tracks then anything we’ve heard from them before, discarding the fog of filters and guitar pedals in pursuit of a more loose-limbed and swung ideal. 

Opening on the skeletal Trance vapour-trail ‘Sim Screen’ and the agitated ‘Repatterning’, we head into a ferociously asymmetric warehouse swerve ‘In Gold Mills’ conjuring an uncanny, nighttime vision of suburban bass riddled with tension and bliss. ‘Shallows’ retreats through isolation dub, echoing ‘Change Is Never Easy’, a re-worked House template fractured to its bare percussive core, while ‘FM2’ entwines a double helix of DX7 patches with a heart wrench, and ‘Gauze’ dismantles a mosaic of Kwaito patterns, buried under a haze of smoke.

Tracing rapidly mutating electronic forms, from ringtone hooks to latinate rhythms and Razor synth edits, ‘Vanity’ explores an instinctive swell of ideas and influences in perpetual and unstoppable forward motion, a sequence of flash frames captured and distilled for posterity.

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Just listened to the previews so far but they're pretty nice. Maybe a little sound-designy at times for me, but I'm gonna give the whole album a listen and see, figured some of y'all might be into this. 

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EDIT: oops I spelled the artist name wrong

I'd have to revisit it but I remember liking the Struck EP, gonna have to check this out.

listened a couple times over the last couple weeks, it's alright. nothing special really tho, but makes for decent background listening i guess? will probably forget about it in a few months 

  On 5/25/2019 at 3:32 PM, auxien said:

listened a couple times over the last couple weeks, it's alright. nothing special really tho, but makes for decent background listening i guess? will probably forget about it in a few months 

pretty much sums up rainer veil

I did forget about this but just put it on again yesterday and really enjoyed it. Great record, IMO.