Cut from a vein of austerity and experimentation similar to the cold-blooded ambience of post modernism, letdown explicitly grasps a most poignant approach to electronically conceived music. Continuously formulating a complex discourse - whether it is from his massive sonic hallucinations, opiate induced shoegaze, or melodious amalgamation of rhythmic congruency - letdown consistently challenges the linearity of pop music, as well as the restrictions
Surrounding present day sound collage...a letdown piece never adheres to specifics, yet simultaneously facilitates possibility, giving way to an undulating sense of
emotion. Gathering momentum from either the beautifully executed
doom of his piano works or the mutated secretions of his ubiquitous “beat†making, letdown strives to apply his conclusive discoveries from these uninhabitable spaces to our impermanent fabric of time and sound. In doing so he welds elements of cartography to the plastic realm of the present through the construction of unique combinations of place and space. Thus, new territories of functional sounds are created and emerge forth from the grainy disposition.
Gathering from a wide range of eclectic influences, letdown seems to acknowledge everything from the glacial deposits of Tim Hecker, to the grime ridden contortions of the rza, and even the haunting croon of Elliot Smith. He borrows, manipulates, augments, and steals, all in the honest hope of assembling an invigorating statement concerning progression. His cathartic conclusions wryly balance themselves somewhere between the edge of our perception and the vital nerve of our emotional epicenter. letdown effortlessly summons opacity in a world of translucent hues.
LIVE AT GROUND KONTROL, PORTLAND OR WITH THE MATHEMATICIANS...
LIVE AT SLIMS, SAN FRANCISCO CA WITH BAT RAYS & THE MATHEMATICIANS...
Let Down live at Slims...
VIDEO BY CRAIG GORDON ACOSTA...
going to town...