After a string of releases on Not Not Fun, Digitalis, and most recently on Moon Glyph in collaboration with White Poppy’s Crystal Dorval, Beau Devreaux just released another LP SURFACE WATER PERCEPTION under his Samatha Glass moniker. Maybe it’s not the most original metaphor to compare a piece of music to a plunge in a frosty, placid body of water, but fuck it, it’s too thematically relevant here. I mean this guy just truly understands his synth as a fluid element. Not only all the tonal layers, but the percussion comes in the form of tactile squelches of programmed synth; sometimes flinty and compact like marbles colliding, sometimes deep and sloppy like carbon pockets rising from the tar pit, but always in flux. This is perhaps what’s therapeutic about this record: the synthscapes never rest their oscillations. It’s the musical equivalent of reading the bit about water in Siddartha. By virtue of its constant flux, this music is unfathomable and trance-inducing, but restorative too; Devreaux is a hypnotist with nothing but the purest intentions; a man you can trust to lead your subconscious through hell and high water. Pick it up here on Sacred Phases.