The artwork for Irish producer Iglooghost’s new album Tidal Memory Exo goes in hard. It’s him waist deep in the ocean with a set of decks and hardware, about to drop the needle on a circular saw — and there’s a jellyfish hanging off the decks.
Seamus Malliagh is a young prodigy of sorts — an electronic composer, designer and vocalist who released his first EP as a teen, which was a bubblegum rave-pop concept album about a dimension-hopping space worm.
Tidal Memory Exo is another concept album he concocted while “living in a rust-ridden flooded squat in a weird UK seaside town”. There’s elements of glitchy hip-hop covered in “oceanic scum”, cold wave, electro, techno, dub hallucinations and twisted maximalist Brainfeeder funk, with his abstract vocals always out of reach.
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