If Miike's Audition is the early 2000's equivalent to the shock one would have experienced upon seeing Hitchcock's Psycho in the 60's... then Topdown Dialectic are carrying the torch for an artist like Markus Popp, of Thrill Jockey's Oval. In the 90s, through music affectionately referred to as glitch, Oval deconstructed electronic music, using the sound of cds skipping as a frenetic form of percussive rhythm. Topdown, with this nuanced full length album, smear their music, delightfully obscuring and interrupting their rhythms textures melodies and ideas. Its no one trick pony. The resulting ideas are elegant and futuristic, blissful and refined. 

_DJ Alibi