简介：
Dustin Wong and Takako Minekawa opened their collaboration to the world with last year’s Toropical Circle album, whose delicately looped keyboard chirps, jittering guitar lines, and breathy vocalizations, painted in pastel streaks across empty canvases of stereophonic space, united with song titles like “Two Acorns’ Dreams Growing as One” or “Circle Has Begun” into a portrait of a partnership still in the early stages of shared self-discovery. For all its sugar, the album’s more animated passages of generative loop building (“Swimming Between Parallel Times”) and textural guitar wizardry (“Party on a Floating Cake”) showed that these acorns’ dreams encompassed sophisticated ideas and performance strategies to complement the project’s playful exterior. The forces of whimsy and technicality, far from contradicting each other, fused into a kawaii baroque aesthetic — bewitched by the capacity for dexterity, but rooted to solid ground by the motivation to flesh out more sincere emotional spaces.

Savage Imagination, the duo’s second full-length album, arrives little over a year after Toropical Circle and represents a remarkable upgrade to their shared sound, blasting their day-glo explorations through a mosaic approach to sound source layering and live multitasking. The more pronounced presence of drum machines, synths, and disfiguring effect manipulation elevates these compositions to a density closer to a full-band ensemble than a duo project — a fact made more remarkable by Wong and Minekawa’s ability to recreate their swirling strata in live, loop-based performances with a relatively minimal arsenal of gear. Using the same crescent moon of Boss effects pedals and loopers that have come to define the tonal palette of his “solo” career, Wong conjures serpentine melodies and swathes of alien texture from his guitar at a more dynamic clip than ever before. Minekawa, meanwhile, approaches each session as the colorist to Wong’s line-drawings, weaving in vocals and keyboard passages that compound from tiny cells of activity into fractal pop tapestries embroidered with patches of clustered harmony.



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