You Only Need to Know How It Feels to Believe

Nicholas Bussmann’s musical accomplishments are many – avant MPB with Telebossa; conceptual projects like The News Trilogy; improvisation and avant composition. But some of his best, or at least most curious, music has been made with Lucile Desamory; You Only Need To Know How It Feels To Believe is their second album, and it’s a surprisingly deft collection of experimental house anti-anthems. The title track is a gem, a sensuously odd Chicago house riff over which Desamory sings, dispassionately, “I do believe there is no God”; the following “Goodbye” sticks a four-to-the-floor rhythm in a blnder while Desamory sighs, “you are going to die.” In its collapsing of the pleasures of house and the dispassion of nihilism, it reminds of the productions of DJ Sprinkles and Chris Korda, but it’s lighter, less rigorously framed than those two artists; it is, however, just as strangely enjoyable.