The Boston-based producer Faelow has only recently begun to step out of the lab and into the public eye, with a choice few tracks having surfaced over the course of the last year. After quietly aiming his creative trajectory towards textured, salient sound design and downtempo rhythms, his careful patience has paid off with a particular splash. He’s joined forces with the UK label Psychedelic Jelly to premiere the first true doorway into the Faelow catalog; Floating Underground.

With an obvious touch for psybient compositions and tonal relationships, Floating Underground maintains a smooth gradient of sounds and arrangements throughout each of the four tracks. “Spelunk” and “Cascade” feature a swath of smartly interpolated glitches and frayed layers mingling in and out of stereo focus with each other, carefully wrapping the listening experience in a scintillating outer cushion. That scintillation is perhaps the central tether to the EP, which is notably devoid of any harsh, abrupt, or abrasive movement. Instead, a clear command of subtle rhythms and interpolative songwriting takes center stage, as the first three tracks gradually dissolve into one other through clever refrains and malleable ending phrases. The slow roll towards finality happens with the namesake track of the collection; “Floating Underground” is an ambient dive into the calm, chilled waters of marine soundscapes. Flanged and splayed synthesis wraps around rushing waves of white noise and liquid risers, gradually ebbing and flowing into an effervescent resolution that ties together the core motif of the release.

With just a quaint smattering of tracks available for consumption, Faelow’s output betrays the makings of a lush journey through his own musical hemisphere. The craftsmanship behind Floating Underground has every hallmark of deliberately emotive composition, revealing an already steadily maturing grasp of crystal-clear songwriting. It’s all the more reason why we’re keen to keep a close eye on the future developments of Faelow’s catalog.

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