Bristol’s Throwing Snow a.k.a. Ross Tones works with familiar sounds, but his material can be hard to pin down. “Cosms,” the first track released ahead of his upcoming Embers LP, is characteristic. With overlapping arpeggiating synths that twist and contort and evolve in ways that sometimes feel random, it has a sense of unpredictability that isn’t typical of house and its various subgenres. By the end of it, you’d be hard-pressed to call it house at all.
In that sense “Cosms” is the continuation of the series of EPs Throwing Snow released last year, which abandoned the pop vocalists and structures that watered down some nimble production work on his debut Mosaic. Thankfully, it appears that Embers continues to develop the EPs’ laser-sharp aesthetic and structural adventurousness, ditching the guest vocalists entirely. It drops January 20 via Houndstooth.
Embers tracklist:
01. Cantor’s Dust Pt 1
02. Cantor’s Dust Pt 2
03. Helical
04. Allegory
05. Ruins
06. Gossamer’s Thread
07. Klaxon
08. Glissette
09. Recursion
10. Pattern Forming
11. Prism Pt 1
12. Prism Pt 2
13. Cosms
14. Tesseract