Published by Alessandro Violante on November 13, 2016
Although having made several interesting releases, Sacha Lemon‘s project LPF12 is still not so well known. Finally, he releases his first album for Dirk Geiger‘s Raumklang Music, after having released albums under Crime League (see, for example, the interesting musician Displacer).
Just as with many artists releasing music with the German label, it’s quite difficult to define his music with a single style, but what the listener needs to know is that The changing season is a pretty cinematographic and reflexive album, in which strong rhythms, sometimes influenced by trip hop or breakbeat as in the opener, sometimes by dub, are inserted here and there, contributing in breaking an atmospheric flow that, otherwise, could bother the listener. If you had to give it a label, you could call it “Raumklang sound”. Much atmosphere, but reflexive, syncopated, but non excessive, quite strong beats and ambient moments pervade the whole. The changing season indicates a change, a season of life which ends and the beginning of the following step.
Don’t make mistakes. You don’t have to think, listening to the opener Connecting the dots (with you), with its highlighted and syncopated rhythm, that the whole album follows this path, although it’s quite delicate and refined for sure. Ambient elements can be clearly found here too, but many of its songs show a greater interest in conjuring the listeners experience by means of atmospheric ambient-like soundscapes, evoking in their minds a season of transition as it’s autumn: melanchonic and grey.
There’s space for a more stratified approach in Things to come, in the title track and, in a lesser extent, in The steps, in which some glitch and IDM elements are more used.
LPF12’s The changing season is an album particularly suggested for introspective moments and existential thoughts, a soundtrack for an unreleased movie in which it isn’t so simple identifying songs expressing themselves at their best when they are put within a wider music flow. Raumklang Music has, once again, made an interesting album and reached its goal in daring the trademarks of this music style.
Rating: 7, 5
Label: Raumklang Music