Brooklyn’s electronic music producer and performer Concrete Husband returns to White Owl Records with his 14-track debut album ‘Piel’.
Concrete Husband, in a curious alchemy, lets us see both sides of the coin at once. ‘Piel’, Concrete Husband’s debut album, expresses the artist’s dual sides. A searing flute opening delves into a torrent of techno madness, topped with two stellar remixes from techno icons TWR72 and 1morning. In all, Concrete Husband takes us from introverted depths to extroverted heights by deftly defying genre.
Concrete Husband’s experimental worlds exhibit his introspection. A troubled relationship’s end spawned the emotional ground for these six tracks. “Everyone else thought my relationship was perfect, and in my own fantasy so did I – but it was violent. He was lost, and I was lost too. Piel is me coming back to myself.” These pieces come from a place of self-discovery after the disorientation left in the wake of a painful break up. Tracks like ‘Piel’ and ‘Esperanza’, appear beautiful and harmonious, but are undergirded with harsh dissonance, while tracks like ‘Despedida’ and ‘La Primera Vez’ wail out in sheer darkness. Concrete Husband’s sonic body of work is a disjunct and hazy self-contemplation.
If the first half of this double EP tells the story of discovering one’s own voice through introversion, the second half is the soundtrack of the new self’s extroversion. In a sharp turn, Concrete Husband nosedives into sweaty, sensual madness. This is raw, hot, techno built to sustain tension in the body. He melds hardgroove rhythms with industrial sound design to create an entrancingly dark vision of techno. Guided by his masterful four-deck approach to DJing, these tracks use alarming percussion and entrancing rhythms to make carnal body-music. Piel expresses a novel approach to both experimental music and techno, showing how physical highs and emotional lows horseshoe dangerously close. Concrete Husband’s bold album documents his personal rebuilding and challenges his listeners to see the other side.
We are presenting ‘Ven Aqui’.
‘Ven Aqui’ single will be available after the 19th of November, and ‘Piel’ album after the 6th of December HERE.
