"Club Amniotics" by MCFERRDOG
Max McFerren has long been a staple of Brooklyn and Chinatown’s lofts and club spaces at particularly late hours with his playful but muscular take on techno, but this is the first glimpse into the unadorned but texturally luxurious MCFERRDOG project. Jacked on twisted optimism and Power 105.7 bombastics, “Club Amniotics” toes extremes of fantastical, bubbly weird-as-I-wanna-be experiments and a hugely emotive, open-spaced club vernacular.
Whether goofing off into circus EDM and kaleidoscopic, elasticated techno or hitting ultra-sincere emotions and straight up euphoria, MCFERRDOG is totally uninhibited in this pre-subjective, pre-club ego-forming sphere. Fantasizing an alt Panorama Bar culture, particularly sportive bouncers like “Thesaurus Mode” ride a clearer techno tempo, processing jumped up club signifiers into a super melodic ASMR love story. Mutated neo-rave sensations rise off of the title track (one of the c38s more sensual moments) whereas the stop-start funk of “Rosewater” or slightly drunker “Vulgar Physics” is bouncy and straight up weird.
This dual mind might go some ways to explain McFerren’s interactions with the likes of DJ Richard and Young Male at the same time as playing warehouses with acid freaks like Gobby and Physical Therapy. MCFERRDOG’s strokes are broad; tapping into the threshold of a good idea and reopening recent youth with post-ironic realness and notions of unbridled imagination, fantasy and new age.
Tracklist
| 1. | Flauntin' | 3:06 |
| 2. | Club Amniotics | 5:32 |
| 3. | Thesaurus Mode | 4:04 |
| 4. | Pauly Amorous | 3:51 |
| 5. | Rosewater | 2:51 |
| 6. | Vulgar Physics | 2:29 |
| 7. | I Wanna See | 3:35 |
| 8. | Slimdu's Nu Job | 2:12 |
| 9. | Procurin' | 2:19 |
| 10. | Myst | 7:36 |
Credits
Art by Mason Lindroth
