JEZTLS is back with a new single, “Circles in the Car Park, “on the imprint Virile Recordings. The track is a bold new turn for the producer, a cinematic team-up with Lisbon’s afro-electronic trailblazer Bandicut that warps expectations and manipulates sound into the surreal and the transporting.
“Circles in the Car Park” is dreamy, and the words don’t cover the track properly. From the first few bars, you’re entering a lucid dream. Coated in floating psychedelic vocoder vocals, the lush synths form waves in the air, with tribal drums pounding below the surface like a heartbeat from another world. There’s a subtle tug-of-war at play here, between the artificial and the natural, the future and the ancestral, but it never feels heavy. Instead, it lifts purposefully, spiraling upward like smoke beneath a dingy, outdoor parking lot streetlight.
JEZTLS and Bandicut are a magnetic pair, both adding textures that elevate. The Afro-electronic vibe is subtle but fundamental, providing a polyrhythmic pulse beneath the more etheral vibes. And then, just as the track threatens to lull you into a trance, an enormous wave of orchestral drums comes crashing in like a breaking tide, infusing the otherwise intimate soundscape with grandeur. There’s no verse-chorus-verse blueprint factor out here. In “Circles in the Car Park,” the story unfurls without words, is meditative, cinematic, and deeply evocative. It’s music that doesn’t request your attention; it politely demands it, urging you to lose track of time as it gently rewires your sense of space and emotion.
Listeners who enjoy envelope-pushing electronic music with a beating human heart are advised to press play on this one. JEZTLS is relentlessly innovative and fearless, with Bandicut at his side, “Circles in the Car Park” is a beauty of genre amalgamation and a shared vision.
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