"Harsh" is how Hannibal, MO electronic-artist Lethargic1 tags their second EP Towns on Bandcamp. Seeing the adjective appear next to the word glitch, I innately suspected Crystal Castles levels of brutality to come hurling out of my laptop speakers. I was primed to turn down the volume before the song had even begun.
But that action isn't at all necessary for Towns' lead-off track "Rooney Mara". In fact if you dialed down the volume a smidgen, you may not hear anything at all. Opening on confident but not overly brash drum machine taps, the track sedately moves into spaced-out skips with enough room to lie down in. It's restful music and sleep is one of the first things I think of when I hear "Rooney Mara". The way L3thargic1 blurs individual glitches together resembles a dream where you miraculously go from point A to B without remembering a single action along the way. And like any good dream, "Rooney Mara" is over much too quickly and you're left wishing for it to return.
(Towns is available for download now through L3thargic1's Bandcamp page now as a "name your price" album.)
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