Electro Crush: Exoskeletone’s “Chimera”

There are words on Tokyo electronic artist Exoskeletone’s “Chimera” – in fact, the above video features them – but it’s best to not pay much attention to them. They work better as texture than lyrics, the digi-mumble at the center of this song the closest thing to a sweet escape from the walls-closing-in-feel of the rest of the track. Exoskeletone himself has been doing this sort of electro crush for a while now, but this is an example of an artist’s sonic idea turning solid, this being especially claustrophobic (cheered on by the little details that make this all the more gasping, like the inverted-scream ending some of the verses and the muffled dialogue lurking in the middle of the track. Listen above.