Holzkopf
Arson in the Free World

Jacob Audrey Revington Taves likes noise. The experimental electronic-music artist also known as Holzkopf makes that clear from the opening track of this six-song collection.

“Inverse” features some potentially speaker-blowing synth swoops layered over a clattering beat. Far from an exercise in aural torture, however, the effect is trippy and the rhythm oddly trance-inducing.

The rest of Arson in the Free World also rides the line between sheer chaos and ecstatic psychedelia, with “Lack of Tremour and Sourness”—which sounds a bit like a drum ’n’ bass banger spun on slowly melting vinyl—a melon-twisting highlight.