red axes: waiting for a surprise

Israel's hottest exports follow excellent EPs on Hivern and I'm a Cliché with Waiting for a Surprise -- rich, deep, trippy, and organic, yet precise and lethally effective in the club. "Waiting for a Surprise" builds around a mid-tempo disco bassline with tough percussion and rugged synth stabs, but it's the eerie vocals of Brazilian collaborator Abrao that bring everything together. "Hope (feat. Zidan)" kicks off with resonant, delayed toms and adds a haunting howl and synths before dropping into a wild, clanging, carnivalesque frenzy. "The Metal Bender" slows the tempo but ups the vibe into an elated, slow-burning space-disco anthem.