Chris d'Eon got plenty of bonus exposure in 2011 when he was on the other side of a split record with breakout queen Grimes. Now, d'Eon is out to make a splash on his own, with a sprawling double album, LP, that openly courts kooky-concept-record status.It's "an oratorio in four movements" in which d'Eon wonders why the Angel Gabriel —who once dispensed the word of God to men— is so quiet in an age of vociferous information technology, and laments that the all-seeing God has been occluded by the all-seeing surveillance state.
This comes to a climax with "Al-Qiyamah," the final piece in the suite. Using d'Eon's normal tools —rapid-fire drum-programming, cascading synthesizer arpeggios, New Jack Swing balladeering, mobile-phone interference— it mounts an epic summation of all of LP's oddball thematic thoughts. "We can't find God/but God will find us," d'Eon croons, under piling-up pitch-adjusting software, sounding like a tech-obsessed preacher, "on the internet/His light will blind us."
d'Eon, "Al-Qiyamah"
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