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Sulci – Four Chambers

Her second album both overall and on the Bricolage label, Sulci’s Four Chambers feels considerably different from her first album. Where her first one felt a bit more like intimate minutiae, this new album feels bigger, airier, and deeper. Everything feels like it sits in a large space around it, like it has real breathing room to allow for all of its little intricacies to flourish. The synth work here is immaculate as well as the album is positively filled with floating pads and vocal-ish flourishes. Percussion certainly comes several times over the course of the album’s eight tracks, plus a deep house-esque remix from Fragile X at the very end. But as far as Sulci’s approach, the percussion feels very tactile, relying on more “live” type sounds rather than entirely synthetic ones. The result is something that has a certain indie-rock flair in an otherwise purely electronic album. I think a good example of the above is “Libet’s Delay,” a track t…

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