caso de estudio is about as wonderfully eclectic and excitingly experimental as a record gets. The short but succinct three song ep from s e r é n a t e feels like a strange time traveling dream that’s filled with absurdities and oddities fluttering about. From the almost sermon-esque nature of ‘american haiku’, which treads down lo-fi and saxophone elements to the more frenetic and almost hypnotic mesmerising beat of ‘how’, there’s no real expectation that could really prepare you for what’s on caso de estudio. A definitive and ground-breaking piece of bedroom driven electronic music, it goes over and above the expected norms of a lo-fi record to create something truly magical to explore.
Consistently through the record, ambient sounds and electronic beats remain at the forefront. But the style of each, the melodies adopted, and the entire feeling behind each track feels so markedly different. ‘how’ feels like a house song, a banging rave anthem that has you moving frenetically as the song itself grows in passion and scale. On the record’s closing piece, ‘to all the plants i loved’, this deft yet ever so expressive instrumental is able to evoke so much meaning and joy behind each drop of a note that you find yourself wholly immersed in whatever you choose to concentrate on at the onset of it.
This EP is more of a mixtape really, a diverse and split collection of tracks that each carry with it different meanings, feelings, and energies. Across just three pieces, he’s able to traverse a whole array of territory and hits each with razor sharp precision.