After drawing from the DNA of 00s pop with their first album, last year’s The Most Dear and the Future, Paz and Avtan push deconstruction harder on their second album, Rumspringa. The duo have been long inspired by IDM, and like the better songwriters of that genre, their greatest strength lies in how they manipulate the audio field. On lead single “Ne Plus Ultra”, their half-whispered, trade-off vocals are secondary to epic, primary-coloured synths, which provide a faint thread of melody as voice notes, dance beats and chintzy sounds stud the song with cryptic jokes and funny pockets of uplift. The effect is like freefalling through off-kilter consciousness and acclimatising to its weird logic: the thrill of watching a band taking shape in real time. -The Guardian

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