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People Places & Things

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Ezekiel Honig's first album "Technology Is Lonely" pulled me in to his Micro-house, but this album "People, Places, & Things" invited me to stay as a welcomed guest. This album is a beautiful microcosmic world, and when explored one realizes it is quite vast. You can listen to it when you wake early in the morning, during the grind at work, while entertaining friends, and when you're ready to sleep.

This album has been on heavy rotation since I bought it, especially the tracks: "Your Face Betrays Your Thoughts," "More Human Than Human," "Cape Cod Getaway," et al....

Warm and drifting, like you're suspending in a bathtub: this is how Ezekiel Honig's PEOPLE PLACES & THINGS sounds at all times. The clicking rhythms of "Passing Through" seem to evoke the passing of time and the popping of bubbles, whereas "Falling Down" has more of a constant beat, buoyed by careful snips of sound. "Cape Cod Getaway" follows in a similar vein, but with more of a breaks influence (if you can classify a single drumbeat and the sound of someone eating celery as 'breaks'). Honig incorporates these found sounds and samples in a consistent way, such that they become part of the sonic palette. "More Human Than Human" starts with an Oval-like stutter but soon morphs into a steady groove, and "Your Face Betrays Your Thoughts" has much more surface noise than the other tracks, but even so, it never turns harsh. "Winter Spring" has a wiggling sound, like an electronic earwig, crawling through. "Green Tea," on the other hand, introduces a guitar and microsamples of a voice, making the track feel more 'organic' than what's come before; "Adaptation" counters this by going pure electronic again. "Click & Sleep" ends the album on a lulling note, with more vocal fragments. Gentle and intricate.