With their roots and influences stretching from Charleston, South Carolina, to their present home of Boston, Massachusetts, Marissa Barbato has gradually fleshed out their musical affluence through her Entangled Mind project. Given the rich underground scenes from both of her urban homes, the blend of ideas and novel production choices in their music comes as no coincidence. Taking advantage of numerous waypoints within the tempo spectrum of electronic music, Entangled Mind productions encompass a variety of moods and styles, taking advantage of contemporaneous rhythms and niche sound design. After teasing their exploits through a variety of singles, remixes, and EPs over the last year, they've pulled back the curtain on their debut album, Eternal Motion.

The general direction of Eternal Motion comprises a number of variations on quintessential downtempo music, taking advantage of meandering measures and elongated phrases to flesh out spatial melodies and wide panned effects. In tune with the mental imagery of the album's title, each track features multifaceted sounds that seem to twist around one another like a signature vortex. “Forward Unfolding”, “Falling”, and “Warped Nostalgia” put that active texture relationship on full display, filling out the available space in the frequency spectrum to it's capacity, but without muddying the individual tones of each sound and instrument. Furthering the album's contextual spread, tracks like “Once in a Blue Moon” and “Shadow Shifting” offer a heavier, bass-centric application of the Entangled Mind style. Expansive neuro synthesis and aquatic timbres take center stage, melding into a scintillating soundscapes and powerful compositions that are sure to push sound systems to their limits, if given the chance.

The specificity in design that's apparent across Eternal Motion is hard to overstate; every passing phrase evolves through deliberate production choices that display not just a strong grasp of contemporary production and engineering, but a vested musical experience overall. What the next series of Entangled Mind productions will sound like is anyone's guess, but it's obvious that the quality of their output isn't up for debate, and there's little doubt that their subsequent releases will expand on the skillsets that give Eternal Motion such a striking profile.

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