miguel baptista benedict – dolor ost
http://miguelbaptistabenedict.bandcamp.com/album/dolor-ost
…because just a few months later, he dropped this, an album which at first sounded to me like a fairly radical departure from both his debut album and basement songs, until i realized it works in any many of the same ways as those albums, and just chills out the frenetic energy that they are permeated by. dolor ost – & i’m not sure if this is the official soundtrack to anything – is an album which takes some sounds from mbb’s palette (the synths, the guitar samples, the tendency to lean into certain dissonances, occasional interjections of noise, jarring switches in musical ideas) and turns it toward the ambient. another stellar* offering from benedict *ahahahaha