Pole - 1 Artist_Big Thief Perhaps more than anything

Perhaps more than anything

wanting me to send him stuff to write to

familiar yet novel

” he declares on album opener “Where Are We Now

If R Plus Seven was all crystalline arpeggiators and Garden of Delete was a feverish upchuck of gurgling synths

Pole - 1 Artist_Big Thief Perhaps more than anythingStefan Betke's nine variations on damaged dub minimalism recall the best of Basic Channel techno while steering well clear of the monotony factor. As with Pole's first singles, these tracks materialize out of a haze of stuttering fuzz, bouncing thin shimmers of echoing synth off of ambiguous rhythms and taught, bulging bass. An excellent debut.