- Electronic music
- Experimentalism
- Lo-fi
- Alternative
- DIY
- Darkwave
- Synthwave
- Drone
- Avant-garde
- Minimalism
Comment: behind
the nom de plume ST★RS is Jay Stevens from Portland, USA whose
4-track debut outing starts off with Gold which chimes like an old
tape broken up and being played on a tape player with smeared
cartridge. One can hear faint droning and powerless drumming around
it. By using headphones one can hear almost nothing. Because of that
the purpose of that track seems to be totally unclear. It might be it
is thought to introduce the other tracks to create such a sort of
effect before. Indeed, the situation will change with the second
track,
Frag, which is based on a reverberating, vibrant drone
showcasing its very minimal approach in the first place.
Haze
is also a drone-based issue though abandoning its minimal approach
and employing blackened smouldering of somehow glistening
synthesisers and intense drumming. The final track
Tosh is the
most hovering one and opened toward outer space. Indeed, Jay Stevens
watches the stars in a magnificent way. The solid outing is a part of
the discography of Bayshore Records.
