Review by: Tristan Peterson
Album assigned by: Markus Pilskog
FFO: Sufjan Stevens, Blank Banshee, Deadmau5, Autechre
Emika is an English classical and electronic musician, with Czech heritage, by way of Berlin, Germany. On this album, Drei, she delivers extremely cold, slightly glitchy textures (mostly Moog created) and beats, but with poppy melodies to carry the songs through.
The glaring issue, which becomes apparent by the second track, is that these songs don’t NEED pop elements and hooks to them. The foundation she created, especially her glitched-out vocal samples, are strong enough to where her rather generic and monotone timbre detracts from what’s going on in the background. Now, this isn’t the case with all the songs, but it does happen on most of them.
Like I said earlier, it does have a lot of plusses. The Moog textures and beats have a very cold, almost paranoid quality to them, and the way she also treats some of her chopped up vocal samples only adds to the atmosphere that she creates behind herself.
Overall the record is rather enjoyable for what it is, though certainly not the best thing in the world. That being said, whoever happens to be reading this should give it a listen.
RATING: 7/10
FAVORITE TRACK: Miracles (Prelude)
LEAST FAVORITE TRACK: Miracles
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