Blog: The Needle Drop

Marking the fourth full-length studio effort by music personality Dosh, Wolves and Wishes arrives on the scene with a conspicuous stress on irregularity and cerebral free-association. Just as the release begins to lay out the introductory components of function and presentation, Wolves and Wishes immediately supplies the listener with a dizzying racket of percussive propulsion and polyphonic color. "Don't let the Needle Drop," the LP's first track, is scuffed with a pleasantly abstract melodic character. The occasionally modally-addled layer of voicing and sequence is so emphatically pronounced that the determinative nature of [...]

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