Toshi Eat Barry - The World My Oyster
Released: August 14 The World My Oyster comes across as a slightly spicy electronic soup. It adventurously blends a wide array of electronic styles including elements of shoegaze, downtempo, and ambient with heavy foundations of drum and bass and techno. It’s a rather eclectic blend to say the least, but there’s an element of that it part hazy and part gritty that seems to make everything gel together surprisingly well. Even with the heavy drum and bass influence, things stay relatively chill throughout the runtime and remain in the mid-tempo region with a few exceptions. “Let’s Take a Walk Through My Bug Garden Just You and Me” comes across as almost breakcore with some rapid fire drums coming in at the beginning, then distorting and giving a timestretched effect that gives all kind of brain-tickling artifacts. “Evidence of Frog Communication with Whales Via Binarual Beats” feels like one of the more inexplicable entries. It comes across with an almost 80s retrowave vibe with a m...
