inigo kennedy: clarion call

Inigo Kennedy, who has been releasing on Token since the label's inception in 2007, follows his 2014 album Vaudeville with Clarion Call. The EP opens with pads that swell to euphoric heights before crashing into a jittering hyper-sequenced groove. "The Fold" lumbers forward in an off-center rhythmic direction, wrong-footing the beat at every turn. The kicks of "Kepler" climax in a percussive workout before the fragments recede into the surroundings. Kennedy has a special talent for marrying earth-shattering dynamics with rapturous atmospheres. Clarion Call is an EP with sorrowful depth and technical power in equal measures.