FaltyDL - In the Wake of Wolves (2024) [Official Digital Download]

Brooklyn’s Falty DL marks 15 years in the game with a deliriously detailed volley for Sheffield’s CPU. In his natural habitat on the long player format, Drew Lustman typically takes the broader canvas as playground for all his ideas on funk-driven electronica to run amok. Propelled by his melodic thrust as much as the highly coiled rhythmic programming, the 13 tunes of ‘In the Wake of Wolves’ operate in a slipstream of ‘90s Rephlexian braindance and early ‘00s ambient-pop, vacillating their kinetic and fluffy aspects to give the album a lushly tumultuous emotive cadence that speaks to his range, primed for headphone mooches.

He keeps the timeframes particularly succinct to diffract the narrative between the pastoral ballad ‘I Need You’ and the shine-eyed ‘Mila Stands in a Meadow for the First Time Eating Strawberries’ in a way that keeps the energies flowing and diverse. Rounds of tricksy electro such as ‘Further’ and the Squarepusher-esque ‘Midnds Protection’ show his mettle for future funk, and he sidesteps into more fanciful electronica on ‘Half Spectrum’ and ‘Full Spectrum’ to temper the mood and keep it off kilter, making moments of future-nostalgic poignance in ‘No self Their Own’ and the warped drill of ‘Mia’s Dream (Mea Culpa)’ stand out in the sequence, before serving the ‘floor with the classic, melancholic disco-breaks pathos of ‘Forget Me Not’, recalling vintage Analord x Luke Vibert.

Tracklist:
1. I Need You (02:34)
2. Further (03:50)
3. GasGas (01:30)
4. Minds Protection (05:33)
5. WORKOUT (00:51)
6. Half Spectrum (02:22)
7. New Friends (01:39)
8. Full Spectrum (02:30)
9. No Self Their Own (02:10)
10. Mia's Dream (Mea Culpa) (03:25)
11. Forget Me Not (06:13)
12. Peter Around Town (02:10)
13. Mila Stands in a Meadow for the First Time Eating Strawberries (02:49)


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