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Zoë Mc Pherson’s ‘Upside Down’: Boundary-shaking electronica

Daring producer Zoë Mc Pherson's latest album 'Upside Down' upends genre with artful sound design and a full-throttle energy.

Experimental, vibrant and full of industrial intensity, French-Irish multimedia artist Zoë Mc Pherson flips the script on their fourth album. Drenched in esoteric sound design, unusual rhythmic beats and dystopian atmospheres, Upside Down is a sonic inversion pulling the listener into a world where jungle, techno and avant-garde electronics collide in unpredictable ways.

Dark synth progressions weave throughout the record, while Mc Pherson’s occasional vocals serve as a reminder of human presence amid the machine-driven mayhem. Upside Down delves into the uncomfortable, with distressed harmonics and mutating noise that push the boundaries of sonic intervention, production and world building, subverting every expectation of what electronic music can be. ★★★★

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