Protect-U - In Harmony of an Interior World (2020)

Psychoactive hardware funk from Washington D.C. duo Protect-U, bending back to their U-Udios label after shots for pals at Future Times

Still restlessly up for messing with the ‘floor, the duo of Mike Petillo and Aaron Leitko dare to be different at each turn, taking in what sounds like Visible Cloaks doing cubist electro on ‘Lunar Note’, and something like a dizzy Ramzi workout in the stumbling syncopation and Fourth World flute trills of ‘Hed Text Illuminated’, like a hectic Plaid in ‘Dream Feed’, or Co La in ‘A Drum in A Room’, and perhaps most definitively with the glancing shards of laser synth that bend around their tricksy rhythms on ‘Our Sound’.