Five Step Path - Blue Sign

Released on June 5, 2009

Five Step Path - Blue Sign

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After listening to Blue Sign several times; it's still hard to categorize it. There are so many different influences on the Five Step Path sound. Taking elements from industrial over to hip hop (those two genres seemed to be linked a lot) and into ambient. The album is very versatile and varied while still staying coherent. You get this gritty, raw, big balled synths mingling with distorted and disjointed loops in tacks like '135' to completely drone based workouts like 'Hlow'. There seems to be some nods towards classic Warp artists like Autechre and Boards of Canada. Previous efforts from Five Step Path have seemed to wear their influences on their sleeves; but this one homogenizes it into its own slurry of sound. Blue Sign is a bit short, but doesn't leave you feeling let down; especially with an album closer like 'Your Well', leaves you feeling just peachy.