Canadian digital media artist and composer Myke Dean, aka Wiklow, wraps up an eventful 2019 with a pensive yet purposeful EP entitled ‘Bloom’ out now on Montreal’s eclectic UNLOG imprint. Serving as the culmination of years of audio research alongside his visual collaborators Diagraf and Push 1 stop, ‘Bloom’ serves as a contemporary reduction of sorts to Wiklow’s sound of fragmented instrumentation and high tech sound design.

The EP opens with the deceivingly subdued ambiance of ‘Less than a Ghost More than a Shade’. Yet it shouldn’t take long for the casual observer to realize that all is not cherry blossoms and plum trees as more dissonant notes take over plunging the listener into an icy cold bath of pitched delays and subterranean spurts of noise.

The EP appropriately opens up into a subsequent number of idm infused, highly detailed electronic excursions highlighting Wiklow’s attention to detail and keen ear to atmosphere. Before sending the listener off into hyperspace, a final and lasting impression is downloaded with ‘Do Not Shiver in my Memory’. The parting track leaves us with a feeling of interstellar nostalgia and perhaps even utter defeat, yet somewhere in between the rolling percussion and sawtooth waveforms there lies some sort of resilient emotional expression which might even resemble hope.

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