Jackson Fester aka Cousin doesn’t make dance music that rushes forward—it creeps in sideways. On »Wake The Town«, his latest EP-album hybrid, each track is packed with restless percussive detail. It’s hypnotic and twitchy, not because of speed, but density. This is his most focused and convincing work to date.

Across six tracks, Cousin pits layers of percussion against each other: steamy jungle grooves rub up against spaced-out midnight downtempo. The title track pulses like something from the Shackleton school of trance, while »King Tide« dredges voices from dub fog only to have them swallowed again by stuttering drums. The deeper you sink into this short record, the more it pulls. Music like quicksand. Just let go.

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Cousin
Wake The Town

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