'Owl' allows room for a mix of digital sounds and orchestral samples which start to fit in place with one another as if making an audio jigsaw, hightened by the 2nd and 3rd listen. Ryat's story and logic start to feel personal, standing alone from whats on offer elsewhere, in its own humble and meditative aura.
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'Seahorse' picks up the pace in its orbit with glitchy drums that roll from side to side, stirring your brain until it settles with a comforting future garage-esque beat with a snare that almost falls ahead of itself. Juxstaposed with the following 'Hummingbird' that has a deep, heavy piano loop and a solid Radiohead type presence that many points of the album nod at in recollection. Ryat's vocal range throughout is eerie and organic, as if Totem had grown from a seed sewn by Bjork and Thom York to blossom with its own agenda.
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Around the halfway point 'Footless' opens up the album with a discordant piano and a driven bass drum, synths stabbing from behind vocals that are empowering and arguably the rawest throughout. An acoustic guitar adds a fresh layer towards the end of the track, getting ready for the spacey, introspective 'Invisibly ours'. Almost as though Hudson Mohawke graced the opening of 'Object Mob', it starts with a messy mix of brass samples, chopped and backed by a great choice of jazz drums. The albums first release 'Howl' is evident with probably the most recognisable 'chorus' the album has to offer, certainly being the easiest listen and a great introduction to this abstract, experimental LP.
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Totem does take commitment and it also asks you to trust where it is leading you, with a great pay off blended with a sense of comfort. An unavoidable feeling of pride shines, as though Ryat wishes to present this as her first born, standing proud amongst the Brainfeeder roster whilst taking each artist by the hand and embracing what the label and surrounding forward thinking labels have to offer the future.
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