Anomalie – Metropolé EP

The composer, recently turned electro-artist, Anomalie puts out another very solid release with this jazz-fusion and techno-rap-music EP....
Anomalie : Metropolé EP
7.5 lowtemp
2017 

Anomalie : Metropolé EPThe composer, recently turned electro-artist, Anomalie puts out another very solid release with this jazz-fusion and techno-rap-music EP, Metropolé, now on Gramatik’s label lowtemp, and yes some songs are better than other, but overall when they take shape under the keyboard, like the single “Velours”, the album is more than powerful enough for any electronic music fan. If symphonic influence is not perfect, it is very good and of course refreshing for it’s trippy genre blending in many of the songs, and for the symphonic elements, which are amazingly still there even with some strings and percussion instruments occasionally.

The first single, “Velours” is the most complex and rap music oriented, and has energy. However, the first song, “Ouverture” is more solid, and some of the others are even better, with the opener doing a strange simple “classical” mood piece. The style in “Interlude”, for example, is one of the high points. It is just a solid jazz- fusion romp. Later, ”Metropole’” and “New Space” are both very interesting, “spacey’, and take the EP to a more up place.

Finally, “Epilogue” is very moody as well, and a good way to end a trippy, jazz-piano themed album. Metropole is if not a reinvention, definitely an interesting take on rock-pop keyboard style instrumentals.

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