Expensive Looks

Alec Feld grew up in New York on a steady diet of Chicago house, disco, old Motown stuff and a smattering of his parents' psych records, as well as trashy '90s dance. "Dark Matters", his debut LP as Expensive Looks, flows continuously across nine tracks, touching on elements of all the music he grew up on: hypnotic house, textured minimalism, and the gorgeous moment of musical epiphany that happens when a beat drops out and all that's left is the aural equivalent of taking a deep breath and staring at the stars. It's music with the sort of scrappy, open heart that can only come from someone like Feld. Expensive Looks draws from all genres without border, and pulls everything into one warped out pointed mass.