With “Alicante”, the New York–based man-machine duo Shasau returns to expand their neon-flecked universe, stepping further beyond the sonic architecture they built on Futuristan. Here, their micro-pop sensibilities bloom into their most delicate and most precise, weaving emotion through circuitry until the boundary between human and machine evaporates. The release arrives with a pixel-art video that feels like stumbling upon a fairy tale inside a forgotten console. Charming, nostalgic, quietly enchanted. Rounded out by “Night is Young,” “Tango Loco,” and “Lament,” the EP hints at the evolving emotional circuitry of their forthcoming full-length Posthuman, like another doorway into Shasau’s expanding mythology.
