It’s been a while since I’ve gotten a chance to listen to a full album all the way through uninterrupted. Fortunately, the spare forty minutes I had this past Sunday was spent very successfully as I was able to listen to Miami/LA electronic artist Teams’s new album, jumble-y entitled Dxys Xff, straight through — something I’ve been meaning to do since the April 3 release.
Strictly my personal opinion, but I feel that the past two years have yielded an uncharacteristically abundant amount of creative and boundary-pushing electronic music that is unparalleled at any point in the past ten years. Whether it’s ambient, 8-bit, “witch house”, or miscellaneous, these are exciting times to listen to music. Maybe if I was more sub-genre proficient, I would be able to categorize Teams’s take on music a little better, but I’ll go ahead and place him in the latter category. With an affinity towards sliced-up, spaced-out synth loops and bombastic percussion, it’s no wonder that any review is fraught with comparisons to UK producer Star Slinger (in fact, they share a track collaboration on Teams’s new album). Although the sound/influence might be similar, there is enough originality in each’s work to distinguish the two.
You can cop a free download of the album from AMDiscs’s Soundcloud and, if you dig it, go ahead and float the man $5 on his bandcamp. Check out my two personal favorites from the album below:
