SEGA BODEGA Vinyl & CDs

Review: Sega Bodega's latest record Dennis hears the producer go full-throttle weirdo future bass and ghostly dream pop, signaling the producer's increasing ability to experiment after the founding of his own label Ambient Tweets. The Galway-born artist's third full-length record is said to explore the state between sleep and consciousness. Of course, wordsmiths know that hypnagogia (and/or hypnopompic) are the operative terms here, depending on the time of day - though this record can't be pegged as anything close to a 'hypnagogic pop' record. Battling the existential anxieties of AI technology and the possibility that we already exist in a simulated world, Dennis formally captures the feeling of the above through shattered-glass-refracted, stuttered, angelic vocal chopups; genreless hypeup electronics; and even breathy ultrafolk ballads ('Set Me Free, I'm An Animal').