Yalls
The incredible, awesome, & sometimes abstract world of Yalls, aka Dan Casey; press photo via the artist’s Facebook.
Impose vanguard/writer/former senior editor/marketing director extraordinaire recently reviewed the new Yalls EP Shut Down, and we provide a few more thoughts, plus a few quick words from the magician behind the DSI Tetra synth—Dan Casey. The audio adventurer and architect moves from the collective illumination associated among his Bay Area peers for illustrated observations of electronic pop imagined & engineered in the form of sequential aphorisms. Take the opening intro game screen style that enters the listener into the world of Shut Down on “Strategy Guide”, the memory jogging menu screen serenity of “Backyard Bird”, the arpeggiated cranium cartography cascading in “Memory Space”, displaying the digital reading of pure industry moods heard on “Sad Promoter”. Countdown butterflies that create that pre-flight takeoff elation flutter are heard on the engine idling “Turbine”, crystallizing a morning moments stark surprise on “Unexpected Morning”, moving from the atmospheric sustains to the closing clusters of keys that closes out the abstract electric art affair.
Shut Down is a collection of walking music carefully chiseled from air with a DSI Tetra.
