LA Vampires with Maria Minerva Integration LP

Collaborations reap the raddest rewards when the participants tease out the weirder and wilder geographies of their vibe-map Venn diagram, and for this reason (among others) The Integration LP is a deep achievement of mood-swing motion and freaky feminine mystique. The meshing of MARIA MINERVA's alienated pop constructs with LA VAMPIRES' degraded Byronic house births a cool niche catalog of unclassifiable style prototypes, from new wave apocalypto to teutonic club dubs to Harajuku romance anthems, all unified by their tag-teamed sisters-with-voices symbiosis. The album's nine songs (ten on the CD) were founded on skrewed LA Vampires beats and tape samples, shaped by Minerva's psycho-echo vocal melodies, further articulated by multi-instrumentalist NICK CROZIER-MALKIN's synth leads and additional drum programming, before being filtered back through Los Angeles's recordist extraordinaire BRIAN FOOTE's masterboard for micro-edits and fine-tuning. The finished collection is a crooked, captivating composite of bleached-out Day-glo party music, Percy Bysshe Shelley poetics, reverbed keyboard drama, extraterrestrial romance metaphors, seasonal meditation, and weird world studio wizardry.