Listen to Helfer’s New Single “Designs”

Photo by Lihi Brosh.

Helfer crafts cut and paste soundscapes that combine organic instrumentation with twitchy, electronics, weaving his own spectral vocals in the mix only to fade them out again. Signed to Israel-based boutique label BLDG5, Helfer’s latest song, “Designs” (premiering below) layers up slowly with sequences that run like water, looped and fragmented ambient refrains, and a firework starburst of beats. If a man made love to a computer, outdoors, I imagine it would sound like this. Listen, like, love.

Helfer’s debut EP, is out 3/5 via BLDG5.

Kim has a very specific visual of a man making love to a computer in her head now. It involves a mac like this one. She’s on Twitter – @theKTB.