Ourobonic Plague - G.A.: Five: Continuum
Released: April 30 Ourobonic Plague’s latest album comes as the sixth installment in a “G.A.” Series of albums beginning with “Zero: Crystallisation.“ The series is one of genre-spanning depth and “Continuum” focuses heavier on light synth textures and small sampled bits of sound coalescing around varied drums, most of which maintain a sort-of hip-hop focus. It’s a simple but very pleasant blend that allows a lot of breathing room for the drums and a weird variety of drone and ambient adjacent synths. It opens up with “Push,” which has the most obviously hip-hop informed rhythm that is toyed with and manipulated to great effect, raucously right around the two-minute mark where it gets tuned into swirling mush for all of about 10-15 seconds before smacking right back into a cohesive beat. Things swing into an almost electro-beat focus on “Surge,” which honestly gives off a hip-hop Frankenstein vibe - Frankenstein as in the vintage horror creature, not as a euphemism. It’s lee...
