B. Close - B. Chamber (Stratum A) (2026)

NYC’s cherry-picking Impatience grip Brian Close (Georgia, Mahbunzi Nahgo Pihndi) at his best, yoking in wilder urges to a fine LP of deftly rugged polyrhythms and ruff-to-dream-textured ‘tronics tipped for the Lifted, Dolo Percussion, Al Wootton crew.

Behind a string of screwballs for everyone from Kashual Plastik and Good Morning Tapes to Youth and EM Records over the past 15 years, B. Close is preceded by a reputation for craftily angular rhythms wrapped up in psychoactive sound designs, usually in duo with Justin Tripp as Georgia. ‘B. Chamber’ now emerges as only his 2nd solo shot and 1st LP; six tracks that define his sound with a jagged fractal edge and kinetic fizz likely to induce stranger sensations and moves on the ‘floor, or likewise microdose home and in-can listening sessions with a filigree-detailed trippiness.

Produced over half a decade in Connecticut, USA, the six cuts form a frayed self-portrait of the artist deep in his mode, proving a manacled grasp of thistly noise and granular groove itchiness on ‘Foxtrot’ that contrasts the effervescent percolations of ‘Many Drives,’ establishing a rub ’n tug of style and pattern that plays out across the album. ‘Character Community’ hits a sweet spot of Shake-like breaks and lush Detroit pads bathed in briniest distortion, and ‘Mpan’ spirals into puristic modular geometries, setting a sublime tension that resolves with the airborne Jersey club waltz of ‘Acre Voices’, and saves the killer finishing move of hip-shot kicks roiled in kaotic synth diffusions, kinda like a carbonated Rian Treanor cut.