THE SINCERE INTERRUPTION, out on now EDITIONS MEGO, is Eric Lanham’s debut — after killing it for years as 1/2 of the mind-blowing Caboladies, and with other solo jaunts as Carl Calm and Palmetto Moon Electronic Group, Lanham brings the concerted, electroacoustic maturity under his own name — mature as in this is super studio-composed, serious shit, in contrast with the blissed nu nu age territories his previous groups got into. This is deep, meticulous, digital psychoacoustic music, pretty informed by post-glitch like Mouse on Mars, Alva Noto etc. As a synthster, Lanham is one of the more interesting dudes out, mainly because he brings a ton of variety and craft, like half the time you can’t imagine exactly what exactly he’s doing, always a few steps ahead of your attention. Also, aside from Ben Vida, no one out there other than Lanham is doing this type of deep brain-play — frequencies that worm their way into your skull. Lanham’s work here rules too for its fun qualities, the sputtering weirdness some of these sounds can get into, their unpredictability, their playing around in stereo space. I’ve always found Lanham’s work uncanny for the aliveness some of his sounds can get — their randomness at times has a kind of weird living consistency. Not to mention this record’s moments of serious disjointed alien rhythms, super fun stuff.

– Jack P