Redux & Respair by Lil Replica

Aspiring for fresh, UK duo espi and xethos, aka Lil Replica, have come up with a distinctive production process. By piping the sounds of (their?) live performances through a crappy artificial intelligence (AI) software, the abstract assemblage certainly sounds singular. Comprising chopped vocals, piano loops and backwards snippets, the resulting mosaic is a peculiar hybrid of Mark Hollis and Oneohtrix Point Never. Not an easy listen with its broken rhythms and glitchy dubs cutting into the non-verbal vocal flows, but it goes deeper. In their manifesto they extol the worthiness of questioning everything and acting accordingly. Can the short attention spans and navel-gazing fascination that has infected modern life be reversed? In that context Redux & Respair sounds like a desperate cry for help.