VISIONIST – VALUE
2017-10-23Visionist morphs back into sight with his immaculately sculpted new album Value, his first for Big Dada. Where his debut Safe used its visceral soundscapes to transcribe the panic and fear that ensures during an anxiety attack, Value expands on this trajectory of strength and vulnerability to examine the borders built up between broader themes of machismo and effeminacy, self-deprecation and self-love, and self-preservation and validation.
Arriving two years on from his PAN debut, Value pushes the envelope of the dystopian grime sound of his previous work by transmitting both himself and us as the listener, deeper into his own psyche. More so than ever before, he approaches his music with a graceful composed elegance that sits side by side with the relentless energy that made his early work stand out so far forward. Value finds elements of neoclassical ambience dropped into the club context of haunted memories and ice rink rhythms that pulsate around the machines that make up this high-gloss soundworld.