clarian: ankh

Clarian returns to Kompakt following his 2015 label debut and releases on Multi Culti, Soft Touch, Rumors, and Turbo, plus a stint as mixer, arranger, and audio engineer on Tiga's 2016 No Fantasy Required album. "Ankh" emits dreamy harmonics, glistening synths, and gentle beat throbs from deep within a crystallized pyramid. "Old Miami" is a groovy, hypnotic late-night jam for the raving flâneur (named after a bar in Detroit where Clarian played one of his first shows). Closer "Alienated" perfectly showcases Clarian's knack for catchy weirdness, letting its main motif glitch in all the right places.