Sensorimotor, by Lusine

Sensorimotor

by Lusine

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resurface.se This is Lusine, L'usine and you all know it is French right? Wording is Industry. I do love love this sound.

1999 -

usine nom fémini (latin officina, atelier)

1. Établissement industriel où, à l'aide de machines, s'effectue la transformation des matières premières ou semi-ouvrées en produits finis.

2. Familier. Lieu qui est le siège d'une intense activité, qui évoque l'industrie : Son cabinet dentaire, c'est une vraie usine.

THE FACTORY. Again and Any day! Favorite track: Slow Motion.

aelia This is a fantastic album! No one does vocal manipulation quite like Lusine. A master at his craft. Every time I listen with headphones, I can’t help but be delightfully freaked out by where the hell some of the sounds are coming from. It’s usually just the song that is playing. I’m in awe of the production on this.

Cassie dense and deeply textured, and the processed vocals just add to that sense of adjacent-surreality Favorite track: Witness (feat. Benoît Pioulard).

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1.	Canopy 04:37	buy track
2.	Ticking Hands (feat. Sarah McIlwain) 04:47	buy track
3.	Slow Motion 04:49	buy track
4.	Just A Cloud (feat. Vilja Larjosto) 05:32	buy track
5.	The Level 05:40	buy track
6.	Witness (feat. Benoît Pioulard) 04:23	buy track
7.	Chatter 01:40	buy track
8.	Won't Forget (feat. Vilja Larjosto) 05:08	buy track
9.	Flyway 06:02	buy track
10.	Tropopause 03:35	buy track
11.	The Lift 07:08	buy track

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From his early releases as Lusine onward, Jeff McIlwain’s electronic explorations make up one of the more diverse discographies of the past decade and a half. Effortlessly blurring the lines between techno, electro-pop and experimental composition, the Texas-raised/Seattle-based producer’s arrangements are meticulously constructed, but also filled with emotion and soul. With an introspective turn that’s hinted at in the record title, Lusine’s fourth album for Ghostly sees McIlwain diffusing the pop-leanings of 2013’s The Waiting Room with opaque, brush-stroked melodies washing over these new buoyant productions.

“I suppose the concept behind Sensorimotor pulls from a special kind of double meaning of the word,” McIlwain reveals. “The literal, to me, is the integration of your senses with actions, like with birds and how they move so fluidly in flocks. It’s just fascinating how their brains are able to comprehend such quick actions collectively at once.”

“The symbolic is a bit harder to put into words,” he adds. “I guess it’s just the concept of figuring out how much control you have over your artistic output—what types of restrictions you should place on it versus how much of it just involves instinct and intuitiveness.”

Indeed, Sensorimotor is a visceral album, with gorgeous opener “Canopy” slowly building into an empyrean cloud of music box chimes and an amorphous thrum. The following “Ticking Hands” is just as beguiling yet also more formed, with the processed melancholy vocals of McIlwain and his wife Sarah filtered into a chilling lament that unfolds over the song’s light skitters and Kraftwerkian pulse.

“Sarah and I wrote this song (“Ticking Hands”) as a kind of catharsis for the time we spend apart when I’m touring,” McIlwain explains. “It’s about the idea of being somewhere and wishing your other half was there to experience those moments.”

Sensorimotor finds other past Lusine collaborators returning as well, with longtime friend Benoît Pioulard’s narcotic croon looped into a swirling arpeggio during “Witness.” Vilja Larjosto also makes two appearances, with her sun-kissed vocal melodies spliced and splayed across the steady pulsing bass and fluorescent synth pads of “Just a Cloud,” and later on “Won’t Forget,” delivering a breathy processed melody atop a jaunty shuffle of cut-up woodwind instruments and keys.

Working with an arsenal that includes an MPC1000, a borrowed Prophet 5, hand percussion, glockenspiel, as well as field recordings and samples of live instruments, McIlwain’s productions often merge the digital world with the real world. Yet from the fluttering Terry Riley-esque samples of woodwinds in “Chatter” to the epic, widescreen synths of “The Lift,” Sensorimotor is surprisingly cohesive throughout. Its ebb and flow forms a musical narrative that’s as much a Lusine album as it is a soundtrack for the listener’s own imagination.

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From his early releases as Lusine onward, Jeff McIlwain’s electronic explorations make up one of the
more diverse discographies of the past two decades.

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