Second Woman consists of Turk Dietrich (of Belong) and Joshua Eustis (of Telefon Tel Aviv), two of the most exploratory and well-regarded electronic music producers active since the ’90s emergence of leading IDM artists Aphex Twin and Autechre. Dietrich and Eustis’ activity together dates back to the early 2000s.Their sophomore full-length for Spectrum Spools further hones their distinctive fusion of shapeshifting software sculpture and tessellated footwork. Shivering digital textures oscillate with and against algorithmically mapped percussion samples; smeared synthetic chords levitate in the distance; stabs of digital noise punctuate the mix in twitchy, time-distorting patterns. Their anamorphosis verges on ascetic: stark, splintered waveforms rendered into unique fiber optic hieroglyphs.

S/W pushes beyond their combined discographies to date, flexing impossibilities, building rhythms from arrhythmia, teasing veiled emotion from bold iterations of cold code. (via Label)

Label:Spectrum Spools
Format: Vinyl, LP, 45 RPM, Album, Limited Edition, Repress, Clear
Reissued: 2022 / Original Release: 2017
Genre:Electronic
Style:Abstract, Experimental, IDM, Techno

File under: House / Electro / Techno