Album: Piège / Meter Runs EP

Artist: Piège

Album: Meter Runs EP

Somewhere between a single and EP, these five tracks give us a look ahead to a forthcoming Piège full-length. This release is centred around the title track, which pairs Nick Storring¹ with the prolific Thomas Gill². "Meter Runs" is powered by Gill's soft-power vocal over a subtle elctronic throb which underpins the drifting feeling of being in a cab on a cold winter night, neither here nor there — in a liminal space free of whatever burdens await at the end of the ride.

The song is reprised in a "seized dub" incarnation, Gill's vocals blurring into syllabic component parts before dissipating into a haze of trumpet, as well as an re-recorded re-invention of the song by Gill. The b-sides include the fairly self-explanatory "Dance: Your Nights Are Always Young" and a fab cover of The Blue Nile's "The Downtown Lights", both carried by Storring's vox.

The vibe throughout is a pliant yielding of flesh melting into dreams melting into late-nite streaks of light seen through a car window — a dance soundtrack for long, dark December nights when you feel too lonely to stay home but too de-energized to go out.

This EP is currently available as a free download on Piège's bandcamp.

Track Picks: "Meter Runs", "The Downtown Lights"

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¹ Storring's work under his own name includes cello-centric electroacoustic scree.

² Gill records on his own as THOMAS, and can also be found on recent albums by OG Melody, Bernice and Loom, to name but a few.