Nimu - Picture in Picture (2023)

Artists mu tate and Nick Malkin keep relatively low profiles, but have both independently located ways to put out inignorable cerebral electronic music. London-based mu tate has spent the past few years slowly rolling out airy downtempo releases on labels like Motion Ward and Utter. Meanwhile, Malkin—working out of Los Angeles—came up with the project Afterhours, hosts the excellent NTS show Post-Geography, and currently serves up a wobbly strain of ambient noise under his own name. Now, the duo have teamed up under the moniker nimu for the album Picture In Picture, which lands on the Zenker Brothers’s Ilian Tape label—a fitting home for such an offbeat record. Over seven tracks, deep bass-y wubs support distant organic flourishes and unearthly sound effects. The whole thing feels like it’s being beamed into one’s headphones through countless layers of warm smog, glued together by an essence of dark, smokey beauty.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Nimu - At Dawn (3:16)
1.02 - Nimu - Room Of Mirrors (4:00)
1.03 - Nimu - Little Break (6:47)
1.04 - Nimu - Ultramarine (3:04)
1.05 - Nimu - Headache Pill (4:40)
1.06 - Nimu - Picture In Picture (3:13)
1.07 - Nimu - Deja Vu (4:52)