09/26/2025
golden furniture’s ‘Simple Helps People Like It’ OUT NOW on all platforms!! Link in bio. Experience this fantastic 4-track EP of breakbeats and rhythmic experimentation.
“This new EP exemplifies a concentration in golden furniture’s catalogue. Across an oeuvre encapsulated by an unique sound, equal parts mutant muzak, acidified plunderphonics and blitzkrieg breakcore, gf’s work is defined by a split between puckishness and intensified abrasion. Simple Helps People Like It is a record of drums. Not quite a purist investigation into the omega point of uptempo breaks, but a record of patterns and surprise. Many of the longer, sample-centric interludes of his prior work are not found here. Focalized instead is an accelerated subjectification of the drum loop’s ferocity. He straddles the drums’ heightened captivation and their acerbic rapidity, juggling absorption and antagonism.
With its bleating pulses of bass, more minimalist sound design and skittering, crackling technoid drum loops, SHPLI sounds as if the EP could both be an adoration of acid and an enquiry into what results when it’s pushed to its more overwhelming outer limits. Repetition can here be entrancing - many of the frills on closing track A Large Plate certainly push the track toward the sense it’s gf’s clearest flirtation with the dancefloor’s hypnotism. But equally that which is repeated is extreme from the off, such that we’re not simply intoxicated, but able to recognize a music that, because of its examination of the outer reaches of both tempo and drum, engenders hesitation and thought.” - of