“Archangel” closes out Bryce Terry’s new EP Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine Papercuts. After the perilous soundscape of “Asylum” and its nervous energy like being in the head of someone running from a mysterious threat and wandering to safer space and the jittery, percussion driven rhythms of “Acetone,” “Archangel” seems like a fusion of Terry’s creative instincts and methods for this release in combining a minimal techno style in the production but with the moody and unpredictable directions one might expect from an IDM track. The almost vocal sound near the beginning of the sounds like an announcement made indistinct by distance but not by volume. A shuffling beat and the motif of that announcement sound accenting the paces of the song that feels like an urgent walk bolstered by bright arpeggios of melody to suggest a focus with a clear destination in mind, a sense of mission punctuated by moments of contemplation manifested as linger, low end pulses. By the end of the song the ethereal drone that floats over all the frenetic energy of the rhythm unites for a denouement of reaching the end of a road of amplified activity. Listen to “Archangel” on Spotify as well as the rest of the Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine Papercuts EP and connect with Terry at the links below.
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