Although nominally an EP, Brooklyn duo Blondes' debut outing feels much more substantial than its format would imply. At 38 minutes, the record is just shy of LP running time; but that sense of heft isn't primarily due to length — it has more to do with the way Blondes' music seems to fold time and space into itself.

Their pulsing repetitions break linear movement into a garden of forking paths, the music following trajectories that one might normally expect to be mutually exclusive. On the one hand, the duo's motorik arpeggios and sweetly pealing oscillators suggest the kosmische synthesizer music of Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream and their latter-day acolytes like Oneohtrix Point Never and Emeralds. (Small wonder that OPN has remixed Blondes.) But Blondes' chugging grooves are decidedly disco in origin, slotting into the slow-motion frug associated with Lindstrom, Prins Thomas and Black Meteoric Star; their blissed-out approach to Balearic disco particularly resembles that of John Talabot (whose song "Sunshine" Blondes remixed).

Combining lumbering rhythms with guitars, vocals and keyboards that billow up in expansive plumes, Blondes' blissed-out songs are just the stuff for armchair space travel and other stationary adventures — call it… read more »