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MH-061 Pressed And - Imbue Up  Imbue Up is the debut EP from the North Carolina based duo, Pressed And. A testament to the naturalistic undertones and daring eccentricities of the exploding southeastern electronic music scene, the album is a complex interplay of primal effects and synth landscapes, rife with tension in a cascading sequence of loops and glowing drones. The seven-track, twenty-seven minute EP is accompanied by an equal number of videos. First dubbed a "Visual EP' by the well-known music site Stadiums And Shrines, the clips feel surprisingly cohesive given that each was masterminded by a different director and take markedly different approaches to filming, found footage and editing. Ranging from the hard hitting drums and cutting bass of "Fire Shelf" and "Raid" to the subtle ambience of "Etching" and "Parties" through all of the surprising change-ups and sound manipulation on the tracks that fall sonically in between, Imbue Up is an album of sensation, that lingers and mingles in ways you rarely expect. |
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| Reviews Summary |
| It’s as if early Chemical Brothers had gone chill-wave. - CMJ / Here's one for the fans of all that's chilled in the electro freezer after its been chopped and screwed good and hard. - Impose / You know how James Blake would have sounded if you'd combined the electronic dance of his CMYK EP with all of the feeling he had on his debut album? Well, think of that, and then chop and screw it. - Prefix |
| Reviews |
| North Carolina duo Pressed And's baffling name may be somewhat off-putting, but their music is a welcoming puff of cool nocturnal air. They capture that "Night Bus" aura that's been spreading among young producers in the wake of Burial's paradigm-shifting production style: a yearning, hazy sound embellished by pitched-up, distant vocal samples, shimmering, humid synth emissions, and spectral drones. The Imbue Up EP on LA's Mush Records is a gorgeous intro to Pressed And, full of "oohh"-inspiring ambience and subtle, fresh beats. Dead Ship Sailing consist of Seattle's Zera Marvel and Graig Markel writing Kills/Raveonettes–like songs with rough pop immediacy, concision, and instantaneous catchiness—old pros operating under the first-thought-best-thought MO, and they triumph often. - The Stranger |
