Baths : Cerulean

We’re about a year late getting to this, but alas, we embrace even recent history.  Granted, 2010 is hardly prehistoric, but nonetheless, the record we care to tell you about is timeless, so it won’t be affected.  Baths incorporates an incredible confluence of historical subgenres, including most of whats happened in both electronic and beat-centric music over the last 10 years. Baths debut release Cerulean, imparts a blue hue as its name suggests…”also spelled caerulean, may be applied to a range of colors from bright blue or azure color through greenish blue colors,”  and has to be one of the more cohesive albums we’ve heard in a long time.  A few tracks in, Cerulean feels like Macy Gray & Flying Lotus were having sex inside Vespertine (Bjork’s acclaimed album).  Minute textures that render a microscopic background infiltrate most moments on this record; with very calculated rhythmic interludes that tie this work to the rest of the Southern California-based producers who seem hellbent on fucking with your hip-hop nod-yo-head expectations.  Whether B.Lewis, or even HeRobust in ATL, we’re starting to see impressive permutations of this glitchy-electronic-hip hop, that in our opinion, is genuinely pushing musical evolution.

Will Weisenfeld aka Baths is clearly influenced by a wide array of ideas, much less musical inclinations, and we’re thrilled to listen to this over and over again.  Whether the erotic skeletal regalia of “Lovely Bloodflow,” or the synaesthetic rhythms of “Aminals,” this record is sure to entice, intrigue, and entertain.  Somewhere between beat scientist, Squarepusher-esque alchemist, and a dream, lies Baths’ Cerulean.

Bathe in Baths – HERE.