OCEANIC ELECTRON HARVEST

I featured the remaster of Vinyl Dial's debut earlier this year and heaped a lot of praise onto it. This one-man act's latest album is a pair of 20-minute suites which lean heavily into psychedelia and space rock. The title track comes first. It's full of snappy bass lines and airy keyboard tones, and it maintains a light atmosphere throughout. "Myristica" is a peppier composition and features some heavily-affected vocals. The whole record has a certain lo-fi charm about it, which is a rare compliment from me. I'm normally not the biggest fan of lo-fi aesthetics, but Vinyl Dial's background in vaporwave was certainly helpful in the mastering of this album.

Review originally posted here: theeliteextremophile.com/2020/09/14/odds-ends-september-14-2020/