Mike Honcho - Day to Day
Released: May 1 Coming off his late last year release Glitter , Mike Honcho returns to Ingrown Records with a new album filled with off-kilter beats and synths, which is available on a double CD with the aforementioned previous album. Day to Day is a quite variable album that traverses a lot of different influences, most of which feels like a lucid blend of hip-hop and IDM in an experimental wrapping. Some of the tracks feature an impossibly heavy bass like the absolutely massive wall of bass that is “Dream” and the distorted madness that is “hype2.” The distortion on the latter makes its presence felt in the drums as well where it alternated between clean and crunchy. The follow up to “hype2” comes with a total vibe shift as we tread into dreamy and smooth downtempo beats that feel relaxed and chilled with an vibe of something like a vaporwave cabana if it were in the game Myst . On track eight, “Nobody Comes Back/Void,” Mike does something interesting with the structure. Opening...
