You might not have heard his name before, but Andrei Eremin’s fingerprints are likely all over your music library, with mixing, production and mastering credits on recent releases by Haitus Kaiyote, Chet Faker, Japanese Wallpaper and others.
Pale Blue is his solo debut, and as such, Eremin does what any would-be Casanova would in order to woo a bewildered female suitor – he busts out his best moves.
Eremin’s dark production style, while aesthetically intriguing (and a timely change from the re-emergent PC Music movement that has been colouring a ream of recent electronica releases), simply isn’t substantial enough to warrant a full release unadorned. Fortunately, he is aware that some of his greatest strengths as a producer are in collaboration, and augments Pale Blue’s intrigue by enlisting the help of Kučka, Fractures and Simon Lam (I’lls) to furnish these tracks with immersive vocal features. Pale Blue’s one instrumental, its title track, is nightmarish Flying Lotus-esque filler, but is soon washed away in the beauty of ‘Two Dones’, a modest electronica-pop collage featuring Lam (as Nearly Oratorio) lulling over a rickety piano refrain.
Pale Blue is a fully rounded listening experience that showcases the producer’s expansive songwriting capacities with precision.
Andrei Eremin’sPale Blueis released independently.
