Seekers Who Are Lovers, You Are the Pride of Your Street

reviewed by dave heaton

I'd been listening to this hypnotic EP for a month or more before I realized that the man behind the moniker was the same one behind that great AAM record of aquatic techno that I reviewed recently: Angel Sanchez Borges. The style is different – here he's singing over dream-spun fabric of electro-pop instead of blasting grooves – but there's as much attention to atmosphere, to unusual sounds forming around you. That starts here with an intriguing, Twin Peaks-esque cover of Will Oldham's "It's a Hard Life".

The melancholy there – and the eccentric, cinematic sensibility – remains on the five originals (two billed as "bonus"), though mostly in a spookier way. Borges' voice sounds like it's in outer space, or the inner space of someone's unsettled brain, on the title track. "Internal" sounds even more lost in space, with its circling laser waves that crash together at the end.

"You took me by the band, and I know that you are blind" is written like wall graffiti inside the CD – and there is a definite feeling of oncoming destruction, even while there's a dual feeling that you're inside someone else's head, experiencing his paranoia, his stalker's sense of determination. Yet the closing "bonus" songs do bring with them a closing sense of peace, or resolution at least.

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