Bearsuit mainstay Harold Nono emerges in another guise, this time as Haq in collaboration with N-qia, unveiling more experimental electronica that’s compelling, odd, and oddly compelling.
Ethereal vocals float in a sea of reverb as glitchy trip-hop beats clatter through a shoegaze soundscape on opener ‘Bees in My Feet’. The stylistic elements are all familiar, but not in this context. It’s all quite disquieting, and at the same time, compelling, as strains of feedback and a jaunty piano are juxtaposed against one another. Shuffling rhythms and crackling static collide amidst fractured fragments of jazz, soul, hip-hop, gloopy synths and cascading ambience.
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Cathedrals of sound twist kaleidoscopically through ‘Are You The Elephant Factory’, while tube-driven guitars stun through waves of FX that half bury the vocals on ‘Sleeper’. Dark and dreamy at the same time, ‘Nocturnals’ is an arresting record that will stutter and shiver its way into the psyche, whether you want it to or not.
Haq Online
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