2011 debut full-length from Jamie Teasdale's Kuedo is an album of dreamlike electronica quite different from what he made as one-half of Dubstep innovators Vex'd. for Severant, Teasdale eschews many of the endless technical options available to the modern producer, rendering his tracks at a quicker pace to reveal a lighter, more truthful music. The album explores the space between real life and the detached world of the imagination: that feeling of coming out of a daydream, drifting back into the day-to-day grind. Musically, Severant is in a sweet spot between the innately futurist synthesizer soundtracks of Tangerine Dream and Vangelis and the emotionally ambivalent, materialist fantasies of groups like the Clipse. |