Faelow - Orbit [EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE]

With his focus clearly honed in on scintilla and liquidity in sound, Faelow has been sculpting away at his creative clay mound with dutiful intent; the last two years featured two well-rounded EP’s that showcased a well-developed talent for harmony in arrangement, and his increasingly gratuitous production chops are smoothing the edges around the crisp specificity of his compositions. As such, The Rust is incredibly excited to host the premiere of “Orbit”, off of the forthcoming Scyphozoa EP.

The Rust Music · Faelow - Orbit [EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE]

True to quintessential downtempo form, “Orbit” rides along a recurrent melody with the effect of a repetitious lullaby; inflecting percussion and cascading foley wrap around the main arpeggio with serpentine effect, panning across the spectrum as each next note plucks its way through the measure. It’s sharp in it’s movements and pronunciation of tone, with virtually no extraneous production artifacts to be found. “Orbit” is a clear indication of level-headed growth, suffusing the Faelow sound with an increasing bounty of tricks and ergonomic production concepts. With fans of dripping, salient songwriting and pointed sound design, “Orbit” is just a taste of the entire Scyphozoa experience, set for release on June 17.

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Faelow Teams Up With Psychedelic Jelly to Premiere Debut EP

The Boston-based producer Faelow has only recently begun to step out of the lab and into the public eye, with a choice few tracks having surfaced over the course of the last year. After quietly aiming his creative trajectory towards textured, salient sound design and downtempo rhythms, his careful patience has paid off with a particular splash. He’s joined forces with the UK label Psychedelic Jelly to premiere the first true doorway into the Faelow catalog; Floating Underground.

With an obvious touch for psybient compositions and tonal relationships, Floating Underground maintains a smooth gradient of sounds and arrangements throughout each of the four tracks. “Spelunk” and “Cascade” feature a swath of smartly interpolated glitches and frayed layers mingling in and out of stereo focus with each other, carefully wrapping the listening experience in a scintillating outer cushion. That scintillation is perhaps the central tether to the EP, which is notably devoid of any harsh, abrupt, or abrasive movement. Instead, a clear command of subtle rhythms and interpolative songwriting takes center stage, as the first three tracks gradually dissolve into one other through clever refrains and malleable ending phrases. The slow roll towards finality happens with the namesake track of the collection; “Floating Underground” is an ambient dive into the calm, chilled waters of marine soundscapes. Flanged and splayed synthesis wraps around rushing waves of white noise and liquid risers, gradually ebbing and flowing into an effervescent resolution that ties together the core motif of the release.

With just a quaint smattering of tracks available for consumption, Faelow’s output betrays the makings of a lush journey through his own musical hemisphere. The craftsmanship behind Floating Underground has every hallmark of deliberately emotive composition, revealing an already steadily maturing grasp of crystal-clear songwriting. It’s all the more reason why we’re keen to keep a close eye on the future developments of Faelow’s catalog.

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