Monkey

Musically building from the template of electronic dance rhythms, Stewart adjusts the palette with a variety of recorded instruments, heavy synthetics, and unabashed sampling of past prophets, fed through a meatgrinder of broke-ass guitar pedals or high-end analog equalizers. Artifacts of the pre-Apocalypse #2: Monkey is the second of Stewart Walker’s five-EP series. Potomac and South Capitol is written as an homage to Southeast DC at night, empty surface roads with blown out streetlights yielding to overlit pulsating traffic tunnels capturing a memory of late excursions with no set destination. It’s an ecstatically warm, yet jerky track that floats in and out of ambiance, synth flashes and stumble step groove. Spitting Sugar, named for a half-remembered scene of The Tin Drum, was a group effort with guitar and bass contributions from Takeshi Nishimoto of I Am Not A Gun, Reynold, and Stewart Walker. A goosebump-stimulating combination of yearning solo guitar and celebratory flamenco strums and soundboard taps.