Indubitably one of the more underestimated (and with it understated) pairings in contemporary electronica, such unchanging (and with it rigid) perception of
Teengirl Fantasy could be about to shift violently; seismically; irascibly as they next month release their second full-length
Tracer, the follow-up to
7AM of 2010. With time ticking on, the Ohio pairing may foreseeably be savouring their final few days and weeks away from the banks of a more mainstream culture for this forthcoming sophomore effort is an ecstatic wonder; a duvet-like swab of treated house and post-techno which sounds as though dotingly nursed by Nick Weiss and Logan Takahashi, the genre having suffered decades of pulsing cerebrum throb. Slap bang at the centre of the record – its synthetic heart you might say – is End, arguably the most affecting and with it
human piece of electronically orientated composition since John Roberts'
Glass Eights: its pace made by frenetic, tribalistic ripples, it revolves around a startlingly emotive piano refrain to melt even the most gelid ticker before the thing be re-glaciated with the starkly chilling, hair-raising irregularities of its closing moments. Well worth welcoming into your corporeal being to burgeon a while...
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