Gluggle Jug by Cody Uhler

Cody Uhler returns with Gluggle Jug, a new EP that fuses a playful spirit with a hypnotic repetition inspired by minimal house and experimental synth work. Where his 2021 album Darbo’s Island nodded to the sound limitations of early video game consoles, Gluggle Jug expands into a squelchier, more spacious world built on loops, layered textures, and optimism.

“I became fascinated by the squelchy, glitchy, short sounds and the repetitive, slowly changing patterns of minimal house,” Uhler explains. “To me, it’s very dimensional and spatial—like you can feel it in your jaw and mouth.”

The tracks on Gluggle Jug begin with simple rhythmic and chordal ideas, then evolve through looping, sequencing, and live experimentation with analog synths, drum machines, effects boxes, and custom software “instruments” developed for Darbo’s Island. The result is music that bubbles and filters like its namesake: it’s playful, unique and deeply immersive.

As for that title, it was inspired not by the sound of a gluggle jug itself - “I’ve never heard what they sound like haha,” says Uhler - but by the whimsical name and its accidental resonance with the EP’s gurgling, elastic sonics.

Gluggle Jug is available wherever curious ears gather.

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