Klein - DJ Drop (2023)Review

by Bella Shannon

Lionised for her pulsating and enveloping abstract compositions, Klein offers another warping passage which, this time, drags us down into the ambient, sticky trap of the DJ drop. It is an expansive exploration of rhythm and texture, free from doubt and strikingly vulnerable. The base sample resembles a faded and distorted siren, which the clippings embed themselves in, forming a rich core of noise hurtling towards an unbroken body of melody. The ritualistic chants absorb and unsettle into a dissonant chorus that hums beneath the forceful voices, entering in and out of the frame shortly before a flustered distortion. Klein’s manipulation of samples decomposes, or dis-composes, norms in music-making, and instead constructs a distinct sonic object so compact yet so aqueous.