Joseph Stallion: Dimespiece

Every track on Joseph Stallion’s ‘White Lodge’ EP could have ended up as some sprawling, unfocused mess with beats clipped all over the place; half-baked ideas packed together and then shortly cut off. There’s enough ambition and enough variety for that to have been the case. Except, largely thanks to the vocals of Erin Ross - they sound part classically-trained, partly employed to support a beat like in the music of Grimes or Telepathe - Max Petrek’s warped ideas and melodies have something to focus on. Like ‘Dimespiece’, the track we’re focusing on here, the pitch-shifting, skyscraper sound is in the most part a distraction to some brilliantly thought-out songs.