Entre Nous

It makes sense that the woodland drifts of GAS’s Pop album were a formative influence for American electronic producer Eden Aurelius – the music on Entre Nous, her debut album, has a similar haziness, and a fondness for layering of blurred textures. Aurelius’s music sits in that sweet spot somewhere between ambient and dub techno – not exactly an underpopulated place, but Aurelius does it particularly well. That the album has landed on Short Span, the best extant label for this type of music, feels entirely logical too. The album starts by hooking Aurelius’s faded-out, slushy palette of sounds to a steadying pulse, but that disintegrates soon enough – rhythm is present but generally takes a back seat through Entre Nous; the vaporous texturology is the point. It’s not lush, exactly, though it sometimes points in that direction, but at times the waves of tone that Aurelius skilfully weaves into these six pieces feel like they’re garlanded, rich with detail.