Altered Zones

Gazing, Gazing, the second digi-LP from Los Angeles' Universe, is sprawling, cavernous and varied enough to be an entire universe unto itself-- albeit a half-synthetic one, built partly upon the human voice, and partly upon the primeval technological prostheses of the drum machine and the analog synth. Sure, synthesized tomorrowlands are nothing new to this world. But what if we all closed our eyes, emptied our minds, and imagined we were hearing one for the first time? "I" captures the blurry-eyed feeling of being born into the impossible silicon wonderland that Hunter John has dreamed up, blinking against a line of two-dimensional palm trees and watching them change from blue to magenta as they sway in the ambient BitTorrent breeze. (via Visitation Rites)

MP3: Universe: "I"

Gazing, Gazing is out October 10 via Bandcamp