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MH-078 Pressed And - Hyper Thistle EP  Conceived during their first US tour, Pressed And return with Hyper Thistle, their second EP of processed vocal and complex electronic experiments. The release is a bridge between their sound-defining debut, Imbue Up, and the more performance driven sound of their recent Daytrotter Session which is infusing the music they are working on for their first full-length. The tone is quickly set as a chopped vocal and double-time breakbeat propel the EP forward. Chiming guitars interplay with delays and propulsive percussion before cutting to a slice of glitched out hip-hop that throws out the rules to transcend all well-worn electronic micro-genres. Ambience creeps back into the fold with etherial atmospherics and light drum-and-bass beats until a demented vocal chop and equilibrium throwing groove changes the mood completely. Finally pitched down vocals complete with higher register electronic wizardry creating something both future-sounding and soulful. With their second release Pressed And once again prove that they refuse to be trapped by tradition of genre in their quest for electronic bliss. |
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| Reviews Summary |
| Genre-defiant goodness—encompassing elements of glitch and hip-hop, among a number of other things - XLR8R / Sounds like: Changing colours on a mood ring - Alan Cross / Blissful yet unpredictable stuff that evades easy categorisation - Cyclic Defrost / Pressed And will reinvent the EDM playbook and stake their claim as one of the genre's most important bands - Absolute Punk |
| Reviews |
| Pressed And = West in Dust Compilation + CHLLNGR + Blawan Hyper Thistle is a tantalizingly short collection of a thousand musical voices chopped and screwed and ping-ponging into every emotional landscape possible. A Pressed And song usually starts with a forlorn instrumental loop (such as a guitar or piano) in simple musical phrases, before a legion of voices pitch-shifted up and down to great effect are dropped in the middle of a musical phrase and snappy, high-BPM rides ramshackle through its splayed-open middle. Bucking the trend of downer R&B samples, Pressed And is never maudlin, and on this four-song EP, they tackle some pretty ambitious musical territory. It will be interesting to see what comes next from Pressed And. - Slug Magazine |
