BOREAL MASSIF
We All Have An Impact
PESSIMIST PRODUCTIONS 8/10
Drifting, downtempo collaboration – an unexpected sideways swerve
On We All Have An Impact, techno producer Pessimist collaborates with Loop Faction on a loosely structured conceptual set about planetary ecocide. This is not really Trip Hop 2.0, despite what some observers might say; if anything, We All Have An Impact’s snippets of lush, blurry texturology recall a golden age of electronica, where acts like B12 and The Black Dog were squaring off Detroit techno and early, tentative explorations of IDM, before that genre became a tired footnote. Weird to think a new album in 2019 sounds like a Macro Dub Infection compilation, but there you go.