Blending house, techno, and trance influences, Tel Aviv-based electronic producer Sonic Pulses crafts new EP HANDS UP around personal reflections on loss and connection. Dedicated to the artist’s sister, Shirel Sara Golan, the five-track release arrived on what would have been her birthday, following a year of intensive studio work.
“Where Can I Find” commences the album with spacious immersion, pairing theatrical organs and soulful guitar twangs. A meditative, wordless vocal impact emerges thereafter, expanding into a title-touting refrain as thumping rhythms and spacey synth shimmers enter the mix. The project quickly shows a capacity for both serenely absorbing soundscapes and infectious danceability, dynamics that are wonderfully apparent throughout the album. Ensuing track “I’m Trying” delights similarly in commencing with vocal layers, here enhanced by synth pads and an arpeggiated gleefulness. “There’s no escape,” layered vocals emerge subsequently, driving with a sense of anticipation throughout a flurry of galloping rhythms and vibrant synths, reminding fondly of Little Dragon in its aesthetic.
Another excellent track, “Run (For Your Life)” revels in a more experimental edge, with concise vocal snippets building alongside heavy bass throbs and a whooshing electronic resonance. Both airy, high-pitched arpeggios and deeper bass-y impacts stir across this eclectic production, again emphasizing the project’s knack for both melodic immediacy and gripping structural evolutions. An EP that succeeds across all five of its tracks, HANDS UP is a thoroughly engaging electronic output from Sonic Pulses.
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“Where Can I Find” and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
We discovered this release via MusoSoup.
