Gryphon Rue - 4n_objx (2024)

Born in New York City, Rue spent his early years pulsing back-and-forth between the city and Woodstock, NY. A kid regular at his grandfather's iconic '90s club Vinyl, Rue kept his eyes on DJs like Danny Tenaglia and Timmy Regisford in the booth. Reflecting this contrasting, at times conflicted background, 4n_Objx is a reverberation of a divided psyche - a "split-level mirage," as one track is titled. It is a reconstruction of the overwhelming fullness of experience. Departing from the gentle ambiences of A Spirit Appears to a Pair of Lovers (2022), the tracks on 4n_Objx careen, lunge, and leap from cliff to ridge, circuit to synapse. Left-field, nervy rhythms flirt with a post-punk feel Rue calls "elastic dance." As if one could stretch “dance music” to include something broader: environmental sounds, brain dance, the passing of current through a filament.

Rue wants to suggest "biological actions or molecular events." Rather than an arc this record spins more like a spiral of entrancing activity - it seems like it might relent at times, but it always pulls you back in, and quite ferociously. A textural feast that reveals a hypersensitivity to processes, interrelatedness, and movement.

Josefina Spectralette

1.01 - Gryphon Rue - High Priestess (5:34)
1.02 - Gryphon Rue - Split-Level Mirage (2:19)
1.03 - Gryphon Rue - Shibboleth (6:31)
1.04 - Gryphon Rue - Alluvials (3:08)
1.05 - Gryphon Rue - Rake's Progress (5:52)
1.06 - Gryphon Rue - Dividend (2:26)
1.07 - Gryphon Rue - World's Fastest Talking Man (4:01)
1.08 - Gryphon Rue - Auscultation (3:48)
1.09 - Gryphon Rue - Operation for Preferred Embodiment (2:21)
1.10 - Gryphon Rue - Thresher (2:05)