Delusional dropped last Friday from Portland producer FENRA on 6x Records, and the early consensus is clear: this isn’t just another debut EP, it’s a warning shot. B Laws, the guy behind the alias grew up on church hymns in Santa Rosa, learned guitar at 14, then spent a decade hauling gear across the US, Europe and Asia with bands before flipping everything toward solo electronic work. Singles ‘COFFEE’ and ‘DEEPCUT’ already earned stripes from CLASH and Magnetic, and Aneek Thapar’s mastering touch (credits include Max Cooper, Rival Consoles) gave the final polish. If you’ve ever melted into a Four Tet live set or a DJ Koze late-night curveball, you’ll hear the DNA immediately.
The EP plays like one long, shape-shifting exhale. ‘DEEPCUT’ locks you into tense, kinetic house, ‘COFFEE’ drifts on dulcimer and whispered field recordings, ‘CHICAGO’ snaps with footwork rhythm and break-beat influences, and ‘FREE’ lands everything in bright, weightless resolution. Every texture heard within the ASMR scrapes, distant strings, found-sound flickers all feels perfectly executed within the production quality.
FENRA explained the process: “I knew from the beginning that I wanted to explore dance music in my own way, weaving in found sounds, ASMR textures, and strings. I started each song from that place, building an atmosphere and mood with a pallet of sounds collected from everyday life. From there I went into the studio with drum machines and synths and the songs grew more dramatic than I first expected.”
Now the real question starts. His influences all made the same jump eventually: Bonobo went from ninja-tune chill to selling out Red Rocks, Floating Points traded elusive EPs for symphony halls, Caribou turned glitchy folktronica into festival anthems. FENRA already owns the intimate, headphone side of the equation; the next logical step is scaling those arrangements; live band versions, bigger stages, maybe even a full vocal record.
Delusional EP Tracklist:
1. DEEPCUT
2. HAMGIRL
3. CHICAGO
4. COFFEE
5. FREE
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