eobseubnida is the debut EP from the Grenoble-based artist xl.iks, who returns to Lyon label Comic Sans following appearances on various label compilations. xl.iks is described by the label as a “4.0 romantic sound designer”, and his debut solo project sees him oscillating between “tortured beats” and “mellow synths’, using a highly-detailed IDM sound palette to explore an inner duality of harsh noise and emo melody. eobseubnida is a reflection on the porous membrane between contemporary reality and virtual worlds, a liminality that is dramatised in digital artist Jack Anderson’s head-spinning visual treatment of ‘kkububun2’, a highlight from the EP.
Blending strange mechanical structures, alien lighting and dense, dark vegetation, Anderson creates an immersive audiovisual landscape that typifies the thin lines between material and immaterial existence that xl.iks charts across the EP’s five tracks. Projecting stroboscopic blasts of energy out into the depths of a deserted and ancient forest, thick electricity pylons stretching from rusty scaffolding over lush ferns, Anderson’s universe is one in which the natural and the man-made coexist in absurd equilibrium, a symbiosis unaffected by the presence of humans. Staging a high-concept AV show in the middle of nowhere to no-one, Anderson perfectly captures the feeling of making art in 2021.
‘kkububun2’ is taken from eobseubnida, which is out now on Comic Sans Records. For more information about xl.iks, you can follow him on Instagram. For more information about Jack Anderson and his work you can visit his website and follow him on Instagram.
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