Paul Chin’s music hits that spot—weighty with bass but still gossamer, tangled with minimal drum and bass and pierced with the kind of delicately strung, distant-sounding synth that makes your heart ache. If you have a honey at home, this is the music for getting close with the lights low. Chin’s latest EP is the type of record that leaves you a little love-drunk, its kaleidoscopic scope swallowing a sound that almost makes you feel colour. Every sound and genre artfully darned into the tapestry of Chin’s electronica is given the kind of texture, sensory attention, and exacting production that makes the album earn its name: Full Spectrum…
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