The artists name is "Indoor Plants" + his real name is Slava + he comes from Russia + he has a few albums ready for release that hed like you to hear". This is how many informations we had about this project and nothing else. That was enough... Music would speak better than neverending biographies and indeed, it did the job. Slavas music is a proper deconstruction, a complex and very subtle combination of sounds where every single sample seems to be swinging in a fragile little world; a precarious equilibrium where the whole track could be ruined if a move is done too early or too late, too softly or too harshly. It is like an old bridge onto which a truck is driving: at any second, the whole bridge could break and the truck would drown. Or an emerging mineral in a crack where a single atom could radically change the formula, the name and the aspect of the actual mineral. Although, quickly, the listener gets used to it and would tend to trust what he is hearing, knowing the balance is in good hands and knowing this artist only seems to lose control in order to regain control on what hes doing. We haven't asked him about the recording and production process. It's more funny to guess. Plus, the only thing we could find online about this artist's previous works and releases is an album called "Udacha 15" released in 2017. This might be a good introduction to Woodword and the 2 upcoming albums. But it is also obvious that Udacha 15 was more of a step during Indoor Plants' development. Well, not much doubt that this is done live, with a room open for randomness, accidents and mistakes, which makes the recordings even more impressive. It is also a music with as less "adaptation" to the standards as possible, just like the artist's aim was to show how groovy and funky you can get with absolutely no funky elements at all. One could say that Indoor Plant's approach and style is not too new after all. Indeed, there's a reminiscence of a precise british off-the-wall sampling method, a method that sometimes brought gold for the ears out of things no one would have imagined could work together. Actress, Burial and some others are good examples of that British style, maybe Actress more than others. Yet that british style was keeping a bit of a functional predisposition to it, whether made for the dancefloor or radio and most of the times keeping an excessively distorted sound. In fact, this consideration for distortion, grain, overdriven sounds was a integral part of this era and not it's actual driving force. What's different with Slava's work is perhaps that it seems to belong to nowhere, no scene, no theme. His work sounds more like the work of a genuine kid (who would have much experience with music already) having fun with sounds and things, or the exports of a very good AI production system than the work of a casual boring electronic artist. This leaves the listener a bit lost, loving what he hears but with nothing to compare what he's hearing with. Maybe this is why we loved this listening experience. It's the listener who has to adapt and fit to his sound instead of the artist who would have to adapt and fit to the listener. And so, his tracks whether you take them one by one or all together as an album are sounding like the hopeful and miraculous results of a tricky recipe. The recipes works even if it should not. It works every time and the more it goes, the more surprised the listener gets to reckon that it still works, time after time. More concretely, it's music full of movement, things falling, sounds escaping, thin spoon-like drums crawling. Something like rain falling on a giant seashell or on top of antimatter. If we can that this is more concrete... Once, elements are off-grid, then melodies sound like patches of audio samples layered on one top of another, later on polyrythm starts it's course and sediments-like drums replace groove boxes' sounds, in the end vocals and instruments get to combine for the craziest results. But it works every single time! This is daring music for real, a brilliant attempt at pushing a loop to it's limit and wait for the magic to reveal. Of course, a much recommended release and also the starter of a more experimental phase going on the label. And so even to those who're not yet sure Indoor Plants will be the future for mankind.