Hyetal - Northwest Passage [12"]

Hyetal gears up for a promising 2nd album with the moody but glorious 'Northwest Passage' backed up by Bristol bro Vessel's industrial dubstep revision. While Hyetal's output has been few and far between since his debut LP, you get the sense that he's been busy refining and expanding his sound with this cut, melding ideas borrowed from Animal Collective or Panda Bear-like psych-pop with his signature drum machine one-twos and ever-so-slightly detuned synth-lines to a much looser, dreamier effect than previously heard. Vessel is the perfect candidate to flip that vibe on its bonce, exchanging his percussive palette for scuzzed-up and pointillist metallic clangs, and swapping the vocal for abyss-staring wails and muffled screams in some sorta sex dungeon funk.