joey anderson: the vase

New Jersey house mystic Joey Anderson returns to Avenue 66 after inaugurating the Acid Test imprint in 2013 with the modern psych-dance masterpiece Above The Cherry Moon. Here, Anderson's "If One Cares, They Act Different" works with a lead that could score an unsettling '80s horror flick before eventually introducing Anderson's signature quicksilver synths and abstract, jacking drum patterns. "Peace There" takes the listener far out with square-wave basslines and raspy hats. On "The Vase," Anderson reins things in, but even his bittersweet, relatively straight-head deep house tracks present an odd paradox.