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austin cesear - cruise forever - public information - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Techno / Electro

1. Cloud Hall
2. If You Knew What Would You Do
3. The Groove
4. Forest Forever
5. Peralta Palace
6. The Beast
7. Mountain Ascension
8. Shut In
9. In The Depths Of The Ocean Is Our Capitol
10. Travellers In Faith Dub

Since February’s Ekoplekz EP, Public Information have been toiling behind closed doors, the cold Spring rain outside, working to bring you new voices, new sounds for the six-months ahead and beyond.

To kick off this run, here's Austin Cesear with his first ever release. An LP shaped on the West Coast of America... a Bay Area Backdrop.

Not a great deal is known about Austin himself, but that matters not, these ten tracks tell us much. From the strobing synth arcs and cosmic-pulse of opener “Cloud Hall” to the narcotic, dubwise-nod of album closer “Travellers Of Faith”, Cruise Forever represents an innovative, exhilarating ride, loaded with twists, turns and trips from the ‘floor to the comedown. The claustrophobic Chi-town melancholy of “The Groove”, the hard-Brum-meets-Berghain techno of “The Beast” and the massive nine-minute vocal rush of “Shut In” are where the dance-floor moments collide: raw, expressive, euphoric moments in the Sun and the Dark.

Then we shift toward stranger more insular climes... A fractured middle-east sampledelia, “Peralta Palace”, lonely walks through the gloaming “Forest Forever” and “Mountain Ascension” then soaring climbs into clipped, watery electronics, “In The Depths...”