New Batch – Phinery
5.11.16 by Mike Haley

It’s no joke, nor a secret, that Phinery is on the ball when it comes to synth and sample driven, spirited future music. The kind of shit that sounds like millions of marbles dropping through rain clouds and self-cleaning robots. And at this rate, with 70-some releases in their relatively short lifespan, Phinery just might surpass meat and meat products in export numbers. Meat and meat products being 5.5% of Denmark’s total exports in 2009, of course.

Phinery’s latest batch is bonkers. There are six tapes. That’s a half dozen, OR the number of days in a week if you don’t include Thursday. A little math for you egg heads out there.

ph067 Turning Torso – Umbral
ph068 Cellulist – Territory
ph069 German Army – Mountain City
ph070 Raphael Leray – Solstitial Memories
ph071 TEN HYPHEN TWENTY – OSSUARY GARDENS
ph072 Scy1e – Canard

Prepare your brain for these incoming tunes with a nice pep talk, because it’s gonna be nonplussed and start jumping to random memories and thoughts. Like that summer at the lake when they found that kid’s body, or that juicy hornet that was swatted and sloshed on your Bob Ross poster. These tapes offer a random splotching of dark sliminess on otherwise absolute peaceful, low key vibes. A totally relaxed dankness of choppy samples, canyon-style guitar, and spot on knobfoolery. It’s like every cassette in this fine batch could score a David Lynch shower. Take that as you will. Tons of squirrelly, snappy synths. German Army going pretty hard, in capacity and devotion (‘No Lights’!!!). Bottom line, this is a life or death batch. Are you a lifer? Or are you the dead kid they found at the lake?

Available at Phinery’s Bandcamp situation, alone or collect em all, in editions of 60 copies.