After a brief but meaningful retreat in Patagonia, Daktyl has burst back into the music scene exercising his newfound creative control with new singles “Chaos Control” and “Ku Ring Gai.” The new B-side emanates […]
After a brief but meaningful retreat in Patagonia, Daktyl has burst back into the music scene exercising his newfound creative control with new singles “Chaos Control” and “Ku Ring Gai.” The new B-side emanates a submersion into global culture juxtaposed beside Daktyl’s own emergence from the Argentinian region. Despite the locale of his retreat, the singles are each wrought with Eastern influence – from the Eastern Asian strings littering “Chaos Control” to the eponymous reference of “Ku Ring Gai” to an Australian geographic region. As the music borrows tones and titles from a hemisphere away, the content of the new release is still blended with Western influences and ideals such as the layered, harmonic vocals of “Ku Ring Gai” reminiscent of indie stalwarts Bon Iver and Benjamin Francis Leftwich. The hauntingly lingering notes of the latter track’s afterbirth outro even calls back to the tones of Chance the Rapper‘s hidden track “Paranoia.” In tune with his genre-bending tendencies, Daktyl‘s newest release strikes the heart of both cultural and musical dichotomy: the disordered, high-energy synths contrasting the measured approach of Eastern musical form and dreamy vocals provided by Lily Kershaw. Lastly, audiences can cling to the perhaps coincidental Sonic the Hedgehog reference as a mnemonic device to keep these tracks in the forefront of the evolving scope of the indietronica genre. What’s not to love about this release?
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