Lindstrøm – Where You Go I Go Too (Smalltown Supersound)

I have no idea how and why I’ve fallen so deeply in love with Lindstrøm’s Where You Go I Go Too. I generally despise cheesy dance music and like the obnoxious American that I am, if a club artist is from Europe I generally dismiss their music as Eurotrash. The only thing I can identify with Lindstrøm is his scruffiness and that has nothing to do with his music. Whatever the reason may be Where You Go I Go Too is mysteriously magnificent. Maybe it’s the lengthy progressions, the kraut rock pulse, the disco melodies or that the tempos make me feel like I’m on cocaine and quaaludes simultaneously, and not in that terrifying ‘I am going to die’ way, but in like an exhilarating rush. Other than that, I’m dumbstruck; I don’t even know how to categorize Lindstrøm's genera; disco revival, ambient techno, underground dance, left-field something, I have no idea? To add to the confusion, I read on Dusted that Lindstrom describes his music as the opposite of minimalism. His sound is by no means minimalist, but he does carry and develop motifs across extended sound-scapes. So I wouldn’t go as far as labeling his music as the ‘opposite of minimalism’. Whatever the case, Lindstrøm’s Where You Go I Go Too is sensational, all three prolonged tracks.

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