Milieu - Housewares (2020)

It seems that Shallow Earth's shadow extends further than I might have expected, because this is a new stash of trax that sort of embody the palette of RP11, albeit with a bit more of a house music and occasionally acidic bend. Somewhere between a long EP and a short album, Housewares consists of eight cuts of Milieu dance music in varying degrees of ADHD, sometimes content to cruise with the windows down and others, ready to burst through the nightclub wall with a bass assault. Influences should be somewhat obvious - AFX, Norken, Underworld, DJ Sprinkles, cv313, Cylob, Russ Gabriel, Magic Arrows, among lots of other stuff. Housewares is for the late night feel good and the early morning feel bad...or is it the other way around? I can barely keep the days of the week straight here in my basement, so these jams may be a little frayed around the edges, but they mean well. Hugs and high fives.