Hobo Cubes “Structures in Stasis” / “Synchronicity” (exclusive)

23 Jan 2014 — Trey Reis

Hobo Cubes, aka Montreal's Franceso De Gallo, has a real hefty discography, spread over a list of labels, the likes of which you can’t do your daily new music research without reading something about -- names like NNA, Deep Tapes, Orange Milk, Opal, Digitalis. The list goes on. And that’s all in addition to the work De Gallo does with his own tape label, Hobo Cult, which collects explorative music as stretched out to abstraction as the artwork printed on the J-Card.

With “Structures in Stasis”, the first track previewed from the upcoming Hobo Cubes release on Seattle’s Debacle Records, entitled Apex Ideals, De Gallo enters with a smathering of dance music signifiers, like synth washes, thumping bass beats, and drill-like hi-hat sputters. But at the point that is all begins to ascend, and we, as listeners, are trained to expect it to all drop heavily back on top of us, it instead continues to rise, blending into the low-hanging fog we have suddenly found ourselves encompassed in, blurring into something post-textural, softly transforming and beautiful.

Similar things go on in "Synchronicity", although the pulsating synth pattern is even more heavily muffled, giving way to piercing noice disruptions in a more loosely knitted, impressionistic arrangement. The videofor the track, premiered below, aptly translates De Gallo's sonic abstractions to the visual realm.

Listen and watch below, and look for the entirety of Apex Ideals from Debacle Records on February 11.