Multi Faith Prayer Room

Post-minimalist trio Brandt Brauer Frick originally intended to return to their club music influences with the follow-up to 2019s Echo. From the initial improvisatory sessions, the group built up tracks from programmed rhythms and piano sequences and gradually envisioned a concept about revisiting utopian ideas of the future. The trio helped curate an interactive art installation themed around faith in the future, and several interludes on the album Multi Faith Prayer Room incorporate myriad collaged voices expressing visions of tomorrow. While angular, acoustic techno instrumentals like "Mad Rush" and "Dotted Line" are present, most of the album is heavy on vocal collaborations, much like 2013s Miami. Mykki Blanco starts "Act One" with a monologue about hooking up with fellow intellectuals at a climate protest, then gets lost in a heavy, hypnotic groove during the songs second half. Other tracks treat voices as additional instruments while keeping their messages intact. Azekels Auto-Tuned, multi-tracked vocals instruct "dont think too much, just feel it" during the sparkling, ecstatic soul-house cut "In Your Head Now." Kom Is voice is more staccato and jigsaw-like during the choppy, jittery "Soba." "No One Like You" dices yeules glitched-out voice over a swirl of intricate melodies and thumping kicks. "This Feeling" has galloping breakbeats and floating yet introspective vocals by Sophie Hunger, and the Duane Harden-featuring "Closer to You" seems like BBFs lush interpretation of classic New York house. After the nervous, blippy instrumental "Perpetuate," the album ends on a strangely uncertain note with the collage piece "F A I T H," which seems to arrive at the conclusion that there are no answers to the big questions in life, and were all just navigating our own ways through all the chaos. ~ Paul Simpson

ポスト・クラシカルとダンス・ミュージックを行き来するトリオの4年ぶり6作目。MCにミッキー・ブランコを迎えた"Act One"ではラップをフィーチャーした前半とシカゴ・ハウスな後半で大きなうねりを作り出し、コムアイを招聘した"Soba"ではユニークな言葉遊びとシリアスなトラックの融合を披露。楽曲ごとに多彩な表情を見せる引き出しの多さは流石。
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