LISTEN: Lonelyspeck – ‘Wring’

TEEF Records have rallied some of Australia’s most exciting electronic acts for Imperium in Imperio, a compilation album whose artist list reads like a warehouse party of your dreams, with Setec, Yon Yonson and Collarbones to name a few on the stellar line up. They’ve treated us to an early peek at Adelaide producer Lonelyspeck’s (aka Sione Bouts Teumohenga) contribution to the record, ‘Wring’, and boy oh boy has he auto-tuned his way right into our hearts.

‘Wring’ would sit in the middle of a James Blake/Oliver Tank/How to Dress Well venn diagram to represent emotionally swollen and poignant-as-hell electronic music. It’s a big, beautiful cloud of a track, with extremely well-crafted vocal effects hovering above a slew of atmospheric layers and tense beats that show off his knack for tension/relief breaks.

The lovely airiness of the production appears to be a Lonelyspeck specialty – Teumohenga deftly replaces the trademark electro-banger drop with a luscious sound wall on this Rihanna bootleg he magicked up a while back.

The TEEF compilation will be out June 1st, and in something of an electronic and significantly less cringeworthy ‘Do they know it’s Christmas’ move, TEEF will be donating all profits to Oxfam Australia’s Nepal relief efforts.

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