Techno
December: 19 techno releases you need to hear this month
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Avalon Emerson 'Why Does It Hurt' (Spectral Sound)
Avalon Emerson closes out 2016 with yet another banging EP, this time with Spectral Sound. She certainly hit a purple patch this year, though we’ve been supporting her for at least a couple of years, now. Each song on this killer new four-tracker stands out in its own way, which made it very tricky for us to choose just one highlight.
In the end, though, we settled on ‘Why Does It Hurt’: here, what starts out as a seemingly morose and downbeat number suddenly acquires a bit of noisy distortion and comes alive, like Dr Frankenstein’s monster. Add a warped female vocal to the mix, and you’ve got a banger on your hands.
9/10
