Pictureplane - Technomancer (2015)

Travis Egedy is the Technomancer. You'll know him as Pictureplane, the Brooklyn-based multimedia artist whose forays against the status quo have disrupted fashion, galleries, and music in kind. While his 2011 album, Thee Physical, explored sensation and human touch, his newest dives into more ethereal territory: the anxiety of daily life in an era defined by constant technological interaction and observation. But the 11 songs heard here - fleshed out using sonic scraps of industrial, darkwave, '80s EBM, '90s house - aren't purely paranoiac. As the title implies, Technomancer is as much about rediscovering the magic in our relationship with our machines.