Feral Gods Country
Earlier this year producer and designer Caleb Halter, aka Feral, returned from a five year hiatus from music with In Flames, a gloriously cinematic concoction of choppy samples, buzzing distortion and an unexpectedly bluesy coda. The track was the first glimpse of his longawaited debut album, The End, which sees the artist approaching electronic music with the wideeyed grandeur of stadium shows experienced as a child. My earliest memories of mixes werent on Radio 1, he says, but at Labor Day fireworks displays over the Ohio river synchronized to classic rock, at an arena filled with fog at Monster Jam, or at a laserlight show at Cedar Point looking out across Lake Erie. I wanted to create a mix inspired by that world, a superset of agony and euphoria, a flickering radio transmission, spinning the dial across genre and time, all held together by an invisible thread. Halter returns to similar territory with the albums second single, Gods Country. Beginning with plucked strings before bui
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