paszka — estoy chillando

paszka’s debut on LOM, estoy chillando, is a non-ambient album for ambient listening in its original sense—meant to be heard in the periphery of awareness. Moving through an atmosphere that oscillates from safety and relaxation to anxiety-inducing loops, the tracks offer brief glimpses into fleeting sonic-tastings that leave the listener craving for more.

This is wild and engrossing. The sonic clarity throughout estoy chillando is hypnotic. Each detail unfurls into its own fully formed sound world. Vocals are splashed across aqueous shapeshifters, electronics bubbling in a wire-wrapped cauldron that brews raw electricity from a dancing elemental stew. It’s frenzied and melodic all at once, with paszka steering the rhythmic chaos into ever-shifting sonic terrain. Every piece feels like a whimsical, radical charm dangling from an infinite bracelet. Twinkling timbres blur into swampy bass hallucinations. Meditative motifs glitch and stumble into strange, beautiful matrices. All the rules are none of the rules, and estoy chillando pulses restlessly, vibrating just beneath the surface, almost hoping not to be seen. —Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis