Kim Hiorthøy - Hopeness EP

“30 minutes of delightful, unfussy new work from Norwegian renaissance man Hiorthøy, akin to Four Tet and Manitoba, though favouring lighter, more melodic manoeuvres. The winner here is “Soliga Dagens Släppiga Trosor”, in which he manipulates a clutch of double bass samples, some simple electronic tones and elastic percussion into a slippery groove. His skilful layering of deceptively simple melodic phrases and counter-melodies would in most hands result in an over-elaborate mess, but he has a graceful sense of space and line that doubtless comes from his work as a graphic artist.”

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