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He Can Jog is the alias of a 'computer musician' Erik Schoster of Milwaukee. Opening with a dirty drone that had me fearing of having to write about another one-note nap-athon, the main track here 'Gather/Burn/Echo' (a kind of 21 minute trilogy) opens up beautifully, first with some understated bass picking out a melody before some gorgeous female vocals take the track into a totally different direction altogether. Yet just when you think you've got it figured a male voice enters the fray, then drums and the whole thing turns out to be rather epic and rather good I'd say. An extremely tuneful slice of pastoral electronic laptop pop to blow away any lingering november cobwebs. The track then dies to almost nothing, building again slowly from a shimmering drone into a maelstrom of electronic ticks with simple vocals plonked atop. Elsewhere 'Pippi' employs static and doomy electronic piano chords whilst 'Company' is a stark lonesome drone but it's that opening salvo that really impresses.
He Can Jog is the work of Erik Schoster, a computer musician from Wisconsin. That is about all he likes to say about his work, understated as ever. The truth is he has been one of my absolute favourite artists for a number of years now and his Middlemarch release on the ever wonderful Audiobulb label is still one of the most played in my house. I've known Erik for a number of years now and have been bothering him since the beginning really to make a record for either Home Normal or Nomadic Kids Republic and in the end, the incredible Norwood, Wisconsin just fit NKR perfectly with its noisy analog drone cross super electronic pop feel to it. It is of course a very special release for us, but also of great significance this is likely to be the last album under Erik's He Can Jog moniker, and its quite the send-off it has to be said.
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