Pascäal - Plastic (2017)

"Pascäal's attractive debut LP is described as a "conceptual ode" to its title, Plastic. It's not the first time his music has evoked the synthetic. The producer's early releases for Vresh aped the vacuum-sealed soul of post-dubstep electronica. Last year's Stils EP referenced Detroit techno's virtual reality drift—albeit with the coddled bedroom feel common to Ways Inner Pass releases. Plastic isn’t a club album—it's more of an after-the-club one—and techno only features obliquely. (It's there in "Dream Apes," for instance, whose barely-there machine pulse is smothered by vague pads and sleepy half-melody.) Instead, the album's fuzzy synths, featherlight percussion and gentle patina of hiss bring to mind other, stranger plastic worlds."