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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 |
| US-based electronic duo Andrew Hamlet and Mat Jones first emerged under their Pressed And alias with last year’s Imbue Up EP, and this follow-up download-only EP Hyper Thistle offers up five new tracks that see them continuing to build their compositions around shimmering, post-chillwave influences. Opening track ‘Tusk In The Rock Flowers’ offers up the one real rhythmically extrovert moment here as furiously rattling junglist breakbeats provide a curious counterpart to fuzzed out guitar loops and a rapid-fire rush of weirdly pitchshifted vocal tones, before ‘Andross To Aneki’ drops things into more contemplative waters as chiming, almost shoegaze guitars ripple out over a backdrop of slow, fluttering beats and vocal chorus hooks tweaked to the point of androgyny. ‘Komuso Flutter Kick IV’ meanwhile sees a crunching hiphop pulse locking into place against contorted bass buzzes and angelic rippling vocal elements in what’s easily the most captivating moment here, the sweeter harmonics nicely counterbalancing the moodier shades as almost soul-informed organ tones swell against the spidery hi-hats towards the end. Blissful yet unpredictable stuff that evades easy categorisation. - Cyclic Defrost |
