Studio Barnhus EP No 1 vinyl

Axel Boman's madcap stable of leftfield house tinkerings reaches out to a fellow Scandinavian for this utterly singular EP of fearless ideas, lo-fi mess and skewed 4/4 grooves. Opening track "Formodligen" makes that neat trick of looping a mysterious vocal sample in syncopation with the rest of the track for a disorientating effect, but to be fair when the surrounding production is a clattering rabble of sonic debris trying desperately to cling on to the rhythm it sounds as normal as can be. "Melodi" deals in a sparser template of snapping and snarling synth distortion and dutiful beat thumps, while "Bra For Dig" slips into a deceiving hiss of loungecore burued under white noise. As you might well surmise, this is an EP rich in imagination and full of surprises.