- Hot on the heels of his debut solo EP, a rowdy four-tracker riffing on Baltimore and Jersey club, Moleskin offers us something completely different. Well, that might not be the way it happened: made as far back as 2011, these mournful, melodic tracks seem to predate the producer's taste for more spartan club tools. "Slow Dancing With Ms Haversham [sic] To Moments In Love In Satis House" is the chief attraction here, and not just for its apposite titling—although the reference to literature's best-known jilted lover does neatly capture the track's vibe. It's best understood as a partner piece to Moleskin's This Is How We Roll contribution "Burst"—the same delicate percussion and rich synth work feature. But this one's more structurally coherent, hitting a midpoint climax almost Autechre-like in its pomp, and substantially prettier.
Elsewhere, Moleskin hangs onto the radiant melodies but experiments with a kitchen-sink percussive palette reminiscent of the Club Constructions set. "Grand Ballet" is about as bombastic as its name suggests, though its sense of widescreen dread might have been better served by a glossier mixdown (as it is, everything sounds throttled by compression). "The Fantasy Between Your Lips" suffers from similar sonic limitations, but in swapping high drama for meditative lushness it somehow gets away with it. As those aqueous chords begin to shimmer and stutter in the latter half, it sounds oddly like a Jam City track, only one evaporated into a fragrant New Age mist.
TracklistA1 Grand Ballet
B1 Slow Dancing With Ms Haversham To Moments In Love In Satis House
B2 The Fantasy Between Your Lips