Danny Scales is a heartbreaker, and I predict it won't be long before the rest of the world knows it. He records as The Reflecting Skin and it's audio heroin - a stream of extra-color that'll make your head go back, your cells open up and your body fill with worship. Sure there are other ways to get that emotional high but precious few works of electronic music, or any music for that matter, are cut at this potent of a grade.
Till recently, there have only been a few tracks to prove it as Scales has yet to release an actual album, just the odd song on a compilation. And for now at least, he's given us one more. "Cavedweller (Instrumental Version)," was just released on iTunes, off The Synchronicity Suite, another typically excellent compilation from Moodgadget Records.
How to even describe "Cavedweller" without making a gushing fool of myself? I can't. It begins quitely, fading in on a thump and bass line already in progress, while small synth howls sprout from underneath. Tonally it promises nothing, and has only the reverberations of something sad and already finished. Then there is a bit you could dance to before Scales grabs the flight controls and plunges the thing into a nose dive of catastrophic synth chords and beautifully brutal distortion. By the gorgeous last third you feel like you're sitting beneath the bombing of Dresden, with the heavy ordinance of digitally pulverized sounds diving around you. In what is becoming characteristic of The Reflecting Skin, it sounds like romantic impulses turning into destructive urges.
Fans of M83, My Bloody Valentine, Clark and any other music that manages to be epic, pretty and damaged at the same time are going to flip for The Reflecting Skin. Whenever Scales decides to finally come out of his cave.
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