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Overmono: “Good Lies”

On the title monitor of their debut album as Overmono, dance producers (and brothers) Tom and Ed Russell dissect and rearrange Smerz’ hallucinatory “No hurt” like plastic surgeons for rent, facelifting the Norwegian duo’s murky R&B into an ecstatic pageant anthem. Each inch of enigmatic unease lurking across the authentic vocals is shaved off, leading to one thing just like the soundtrack to assembly the love of your life whereas strolling throughout the Williamsburg Bridge at golden hour. A intelligent stroke of emotional alchemy, “Good Lies” flips its supply materials’s defensive crouch into an airbrushed head-rush of candy chance. –Kieran Press-Reynolds

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Pangaea: “Set up”

A decade and alter because the digital producer Pangaea pulped UK clubland’s collective mind with the diced syllables and drunken percussion of “Hex,” he repeated the feat—however sweeter, sexier this time—with “Set up.” The tongue-juggling vocal chops are nonetheless front-and-center, however the place “Hex” swirled round drum hits that appeared to disintegrate simply as they reached your ears, “Set up” pumps a full-blooded Jersey home bounce by bubblegum-pop framing and calls for a singalong—even should you’ve acquired no thought what the phrases are. I’m going with “eso es,” or Spanish for, “That’s it!” –Will Pritchard

Pay attention: Pangaea, “Set up”

Pépe: Reclaim

Within the music of the Spanish producer Pépe, human growth and nature are locked in an uneasy truce and Reclaim, his debut album, challenges the listener to determine which is extra stunning. Although it’s inspiring to listen to the dystopian robo-voice of “Optical: Activate” progressively get swallowed by a loamy wall of string synths, Reclaim is commonly at its most fascinating when it conjures synthetic paradises and Y2K utopian aesthetics. The album is sort of a tour of the final 40 years of retrofuturism, from John Carpenter and Vangelis’ synth scores to the optimism of ’90s rave to the bubbly pop artwork of Frutiger Aero. Underlying the music, nonetheless, is the ominous suggestion that the current world may need to be destroyed to make room for a greater one. –Daniel Bromfield

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Peverelist: Pulse Modulation EP

Like many membership producers, Livity Sound boss Peverelist seems allergic to the album format. It’s been six years since his final full-length, and he had the whole lot he wanted to comply with it up this 12 months with a concise but assorted set of lean, live-wire techno. As an alternative, he cut up the eight cuts—merely titled “Pulse I” by “Pulse VIII”—into two EPs launched with little fanfare. October’s Pulse Modulation EP is the extra thrilling of the 2 information, by a hair: “Pulse V” channels basic Detroit, “Pulse VII” performs impolite bass off ambient pads, and the jungle throwback “Pulse VIII” balances stone-faced fury with weightless bliss. (“Pulse VI,” in the meantime, might be manna to heads who consider that minimal techno peaked with DBX’s 1994 basic “Shedding Management.”) Put collectively, the 2 EPs may need made for one of many 12 months’s landmark membership albums. However hey, coulda, woulda, shoulda—whether or not individually or as an entire set, all eight tracks bang. –Philip Sherburne