Maybe you thought you knew what you were getting from a Pulse Emitter album called Tide Pools. Limpid ambient miniatures lapping against the speakers, right?
Turns out Daryl Groetsch got all that out of his system with his 2022 album Dusk and the run of synth albums he’s put out under his own name since then; now, he’s ready to play in spikier territory. More challenging than Dusk or Swirlings, his 2020 debut for the trippy Chicago label Hausu Mountain, Tide Pools suggests not so much the shimmering surface of its namesake as the strange denizens that might be found within, pulsating and flexing their spines for whatever beachcomber is lucky enough to find them.
Still drawing from the array of vintage synths…
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