karen gwyer: bouloman

Michigan's Karen Gwyer delivers the eighth release on the Berlin-based Nous imprint. "Keisa Kizzy Kinte" kicks off proceedings with a dissonant synth line that headily intensifies into a dirty digi-funk epic. The equally-enthralling "Brunch Music" follows, defining itself by way of a wry techno onslaught that is only ever abstractly confrontational and treading similar waters to the more fearsome spectrum of Actress's territory. The EP closes with "Shit List with Kid," an intriguingly-titled exercise in British-sounding, wavy, ambient electro, juxtaposed with UR-inspired, harmony-driven techno; an epiphanic master-class in tenderly layering polyrhythmic drum machines.