Motor City by Sand Circles

This is Martin Herterich’s second lap on the NNF circuit (following 2011’s Midnight Crimes EP) and although the schematics remain the same – dusty drum machinery, heavy echo, analog synths, derelict metropolis atmospherics – Motor City’s finesse and execution place it in a superior division. A narrative threads through each side: “Entering Motor City” across “White Sand” where there’s a “Downtown Holdup” in the “Innercity Haze” before cruising back out of the urban sprawl, “Distant Lights” in the rearview, on through the “Endless Nights,” “Descending Into Space.”

As on his last outing, Sand Circles' chemistry of horizon melodies and reverbed rhythm conjures a uniquely hazed industrial reverie. The 11 instrumentals of Motor City channel this interzone in elusive and evocative ways.

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