Album Review: Motion Graphics - Motion Graphics

Considering the tracks of Motion Graphics were built to simulate the soundscape of digital interfaces we live with, it's not surprising that it can sound like Gregorian chants for the Matrix age.

There are some striking moments of nuance amid a clutter of electro-found sound and techno-pop, and other moments of purposeful disorientation and jarring juxtaposition that draw a line beneath the album as if to say: art. Thankfully, Joe Williams rolls with these flourishes, never letting any one track revel in its alienation for too long, regularly buffering the oddities with delicately layered instrumentation and semi-opaque lyricism.