Iglooghost’s Brainfeeder LP is introduced with the hyperactive ‘Bug Thief’
Iglooghost is a young Irish-born UK-based producer Seamus Malliagh who can’t be more than 20 years old but who already has an EP on Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder label.
News has reached that his heavy-beatdown atmospherics, dayglow rap beats and squiggly electronica will get a full-length release Neō Wax Bloom on the label on September 29th.
After hearing new track ‘Bug Thief’, it makes sense that this project would find a home on the LA Beat scene’s influential label. It’s fizzy and hyperactive, choatic and controlled, it’s a bit like a mild panic attack it darts in so many directions. Whether that is a good thing or bad, depends on your tolerance for such short-attention-span music making. It’s certainly batshit whatever side of the fence you fall on.
it’s got an equally bizarre backstory to boot about a “gelatinous worm-shaped creature called Xiangjiao” and “two giant eyeballs crashing into the mysterious world of Mamu.”
“When a pair of giant eyeballs crash into the strange, misty world of Mamu, the mysterious forces that govern nature itself are disrupted. A life cycle of transforming creatures is thrown off balance, and the odd looking inhabitants of Mamu are forced to adapt to this calamity. These inhabitants include Yomi – a multicoloured pom-pom monk; Lummo – a wise blind witch training a band of melon coloured babies; and Uso – a sneaky bug thief hidden in a green cloak – as well as many others. As their respective stories begin to interlock, the mysteries surrounding the giant eyeballs are slowly revealed.”
1. Pale Eyes
2. Super Ink Burst
3. Bug Thief
4. Sōlar Blade
5. White Gum
6. Purity Shards
7. Zen Champ
8. Infinite Mint (feat. Cuushe)
9. Teal Yomi / Olivine (feat. Mr. Yote)
10. Peanut Choker
11. Göd Grid
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