In the future, one has every reason to expect things like sausage-making will take place in colourful pop storefronts decorated minimally and sterilized to the point of maximum hygiene (think Pinkberry). And when that day comes, Octo Octa has just the soundtrack. Brooklyn’s Michael Bouldry-Morrison leads this loop-happy lo-fi house music project to highly polished results. Readymade for the Standard Hotel’s poolside lounge or, well, the inside of your nearest Pinkberry, songs like “High Reflection” still feel somewhat derived from the bedroom synthpop style connected ineffably to Williamsburg. Yet sometimes the loop-making experiment becomes so transparent that it sounds like the audio equivalent of watching sausage made. – Brian Chidester
