The Bay Area’s Beast Nest (Sharmi Basu) forges dense drone tracks that build in electronic intensity through accumulated layers of samples and gummy beats. The opener of their LP Sicko suggests raga, or at least Bollywood, influences, but the sonic template melts beyond boundaries.

The tracks often delay the easy comfort of percussive frameworks for more extended noise breakdowns. A lot of blurbs, bleeps, and bloops. A few listens, though, and the larger geometry of the compositions break through the fog like a ghost ship on a moonlit night.

Our highlighted track “Kim, People Are Dying” evolves over seven minutes into a Selected Ambient Works Vol. I-style banger. Be patient.

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