Vasco Lé - These Tears Feel So Eerie (2026)

These Tears Feel So Eerie is the third release of Vasco Le. His debut, You Know, Everybody Wanna Say "I Do This, I Do That". Everyone Acts Like They're Hard as Shit. But Just Stop, was self-released before being reissued on CD with Turva. This was followed by his audio work made for Andre Pipa's 'Instalacao 001', In Response to Apathetic Behaviour and the All-Consuming Nature of the Violent Productive City. Built largely out of samples that Le has obsessively reworked, These Tears Feel So Eerie layers processed fragments with drum machines & the occasional overdub. There is an intimacy in the way he handles his sonic material & lays bare the cumulative force of contrasting spatio-temporalities. The result is nothing short of a romanticism strung out on the excitements of incongruity. The title is a nod to Mark Fisher, who knack for smuggling anti-capitalist critique into easy-to-digest examples from everyday life & popular modernism. 'Eerie' refers to when something should be there is missing; that feeling of unease that accompanies such a failed presence. For Le, These tears... carries this sense of absencethat emotional residue that lingers in the gaps. While this project shares a distant kinship with vapourwave's sampledeliaits collage mechanics, blurred & pitched-down disfigurations & all-in-the-red LoFi sheenLe's release eschews that nostalgic impulse often present that lineage. More apt is to place Le's musical dynamism & rhythmic frenzy amongst the language of the PTP crew (Speaker Music / DeForrest Brown Jr., KVU, Saint Abdullah) or the London-school of tricksters (Dean Blunt, Inga Copeland, Klein). These Tears Feel So Eerie is Perfs fifth instalment, & first tape release.