On their latest EP, Reighnbeau producer Bryce Hample teams up with collaborators Colleen Johnson (Flying Circles, Silver Shadows) and Madeline Johnston (Midwife, Sister Grotto) to create an album that skirts the edges of IDM, dream pop, and electro-folk. Six off-kilter love songs—sparkling pieces of art-pop music for voice, electronics, acoustic guitar, and autoharp.
credits
released November 7, 2018
Produced by Bryce Hample.
Vocals by Colleen Johnson, Madeline Johnston, and Bryce Hample.
Recorded in Albuquerque, Oakland, Berkeley, Denver, and in Bicknell, Utah in a giant empty room in a house made of stone.
Cover art by Pam Cameron-Snyder.
REVIEWS
"Silky smooth smash-hits aimed through a prism, splashing an aural collage of colour and texture in every direction." - Various Small Flames
" Not content to merely have their work fit in with other visionary seminal works by Grimes, Sylvan Esso, & Múm, Reighnbeau’s 'Slight EP' shows the band kicking their composition & mixing skills up a few notches, toeing the line between entrancing and mania-inducing." - Cassette Gods
"Slight shifts and morphs like sand in a desert, flowing through dream pop, folk, glitch, and synth soundscapes...six surreal tracks that explore love, loss, and the hypnotic nature of rhythm." - Thrdcoast
"Reighnbeau’s a dense configuration, an opaque cloud of electrofolk goodness that shifts its shape from moment to moment. Hample’s production is top notch – the doors of my expectations have completely been blown of their hinges...this is straight digital candy, sugar rushes of electronics and pop flourishes that remain stuck to your ear canals long after the songs end." - Tabs Out
"A shimmering collaboration...an ambiguous and intriguing mosaic of dream pop and electro-folk, which simultaneously skirts the edges of IDM...[a] masterful EP." - We Are Unseen
"They fly through the night air searching for the perfect dance beat, soft and stimulating. I could listen to this all day." - K Records
"The way thunder looks if it were to be drawn on a map above the continents." - Small Albums
The compilation series that led into the label. With tracks by artists like Broken Water, David Thomas Broughton, and Stephen Steinbrink, and members of Grass Widow, The Lowest Pair, and Lake. Antiquated Future Records
Not only is Colorado my favorite track from this album, but it might one of my favorite songs of all time. Such a perfectly haunting study of the despair everybody was feeling during the pandemic lockdowns: captured in song form. aaronboard