Hiraeth

Maygar musician / producer iamyank's self-released two EPs in the last year caused a great stir in the perpetually vibrant Budapest underground scene. His first full length comes with 11-tracks. The first half of the album is a submergence into haunted and distorted melodies. In 'No Air' and 'No Light' the pulsating rhythms balance out the pitch-shifted moans and almost 'Baba O'Reilly' -esque, step sequenced synth patterns. 'Silence' contains sinister synths which take over in a segment akin to a long lost Burial dub-plate. 'Home' slows the tempo down to the sounds of minimalistic, echoed 808s and jingling ice cubes rolling around in a glass, only to breakout into 'Close To Us' - with its galloping drums and emotive strings. The latter part of the album joins-the-dots between the likes of Liar; Congi; murcof and Shigeto and then reduces down to the slowed paced outro ('Safe') with a traditional live set-up - drums fading in-and-out while the single keyboard notes evoke a deep sea-soundscape.