Vote Pedro
Pedro
Pedro
(Mush)
Manchester-based sound collage expert brings his IDM/post rock/hip-hop game of Twister to America.
Despite having the most fertile plains on which to operate, post rock and so-called “intelligent dance music” are routinely the most boring and self-indulgent genres in the rock underground. Conceived and cultivated in vacuums, the lines between emotion and nausea aren’t blurred but hardened via loops allowed to run riot and complex time signatures — akin to artificially intelligent drum machines showing off — raging uncontrollably.
Single-named Pedro is prone to the above on his self-titled debut, yet he can also be uncommonly tasteful for extended periods. “Batman” TV series horns punctuate the DJ Cam-ish “Fear & Resilience” with (POW!) humor and (WHAM!) panache, and where exotic articles, like the Far Eastern instrumentation behind “These Pixels Weave A Person,” become core instruments for lesser DJs, Pedro juxtaposes them with more classical elements before smearing them together. Not always pretty, but rarely boring.
— Steve Forstneger
