Roberto Carlos Lange keeps on keeping on: after 2012 found him releasing a full-length collaboration with Julianna Barwick, as Ombre, 2013 will begin with him turning out his fourth Helado Negro LP, Invisible Life (he's also Epstein, Epstein y El Conjunto, ROM, and probably some more projects I'm forgetting).
Even as his main, and most persistent, project, Helado Negro betrays the restlessness of its creator; never trading in anything so easy as a singular style. "Dance Ghost" feels suitably Langeian in the way it sounds simultaneously demented and friendly; a pleasant pop-song told in wonky synths, which sound so deflated it's as if their batteries are running low.
Listening on headphones is a treat; Lange —who, as producer, has worked with Prefuse 73 and Bear in Heaven— sending his strange keyboard parts pattering back-and-forth from can to can. And, like Lange in the run of promotional photos sent out with Invisible Life, all manner of devilish details lurk in the shadows. Photo © Ryan Dickie
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