January 24, 2020 - DocciRec
Polish producer Da Vosk Docta, blending the delicate and the dirty, the clipped and the articulated melodies, has drafted a delicate nocturne pinioned with grit in Lo-Fi Is the Unwanted Bastard Child of Jazz. The bombast of the album title belies the self-awareness and heart found therein. One unversed in Da Vosk Docta’s work may anticipate oncoming trip-hop and not a tastefully understated raunch-fest capable of plucking at each emotion within a given body. With a dynamic interplay of textures and fortes Mr. Docta takes the trope of gaud and finds and parses out sparse poetry.
Not only finding room, but creating a harmonious dwelling for foor-on-the-floor eighties-inspired grime-bass and lightly trilling woodwind synths, Da Vosk Docta moves with fluidity between the camp of online communities dedicated to irony and sincere images of a person who feels, and feels openly with showmanship. Here is an album uncorrupted and unflagging in its sincerity, that doesn’t find excuses to lean into one angle of an emotional prism, that doesn’t bunker in flippancy, that wants you to dance and think your devilish thoughts on the dance floor or moon-bathe in Pisces dreamy solitude; the constellations for both occasions are always above you. ⛰️