Deadin Dogyears’ breakout single, YUL//LGA, tamed glitchwavey trip-hop electronica into a feverishly dreamy 8-bit rabbit hole of pure ingenuity. The Montreal indie electronic artist and producer’s ability to fine-tune levels of disorientation within his productions allows the listener to drift with the euphonic disarray of electronic textures and overlapping vocal samples without hitting sensory overload.
Your rhythmic pulses may feel ready to go into cardiac arrest from the agitation within the beats, but that volatility carries a sense of hazy, psychedelic sublimity through Deadin Dogyears’ mesmerically unique sonic signature, which permits retro-futurism to run rampant through vintage saturation and chiptune elements, adding to the magnetism of a release threaded with the ever-comforting presence of nostalgia, as though YUL//LGA is a series of fragments of memory, distorted and warped through time.
After dropping three singles in two months and earning three Spotify editorial playlist placements for his previous release, Deadin Dogyears is already turning early momentum into something more concrete than algorithmic luck. YUL//LGA has the restless micro-detail of glitch, the low-lit drift of trip-hop and the fractured playfulness of 8-bit electronica, but the emotional residue stops it feeling sterile, more like a half-remembered arcade dream flickering behind your eyes.
Fans of Boards of Canada, Four Tet, Flying Lotus and Aphex Twin’s dreamier edges will undoubtedly find themselves obsessed with the woozily frenetic aura of Deadin Dogyears.
YUL//LGA is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify.
Review by Amelia Vandergast
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