Epiphany

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A year on from his full-length debut Family Portrait, British house producer Ross from Friends moved to a new recording studio and made the Epiphany EP, his third release for Brainfeeder. Like his album, this three-song effort consists of intricately detailed tracks whose audio quality is grainy but not quite "lo-fi." The aim for this EP was to produce something more overtly club-ready than previous Ross from Friends releases, and while there's a bit more repetition to the structures of these tracks, they're still packed with far too many micro-edits and momentary distractions to be formulaic DJ tools. At times the tracks are nearly as layered as those of labelmate Iglooghost, but these are nowhere near as giddy or hyperactive, and they manage to sound full but not overcrowded. "Epiphany" has shades of breaks-driven trance, while the loose, slightly dismantled "The Revolution" is a piece of submerged funk with a rolling garage bassline. "Phantom Ratio" is perhaps the winner of the lot, with a smashed breakbeat fragment regularly popping up and adding a jolt of adrenaline to the arpeggio-driven landscape cruise. ~ Paul Simpson