On ‘Almost Awake at Midnight’, Portland producer Kip LaVie crafts a hypnotic journey through the witching hour.
Delicate topline synth sequences intertwine over glitchy beats in a blend of evocative electronica. Yet LaVie makes the style his own, with jazzy textures bathed in a smoky intimacy.
LaVie’s production ebbs and flows like a half-remembered dream, as though we’re witnessing his drifting thoughts in a state between sleep and waking. There’s a fascinating sense of freedom in the track’s haziness, as melody and rhythm blend into reverie. LaVie conjures an oneiric headspace that welcomes the listener into its delicate beauty. ‘
Almost Awake at Midnight’ lives in the spaces between genres, weaving classical approaches with electronic ambience.
Following his influences in unpredictable directions, LaVie emerges as a producer of stellar imagination. This transportive track offers late-night catharsis for the insomniac in us all.
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