Here's "Night Cycle", the debut album from Terminal Scout, the latest project from Brooklyn drummer, producer, and writer Dale Eisinger. I first heard about Eisinger when he was handling drums and electronics in the New York noise-rock act YVETTE, a duo that combine abrasive textures, post-punk vocals and pounding rhythms, all to brutal-but cathartic effect. A couple of years later, Dale turned up as the producer for House of Feelings, a modern house collective-turned-record label led by a former LCD Soundsystem choir singer - and fellow New Yorker - named Matty Fasano.

A few weeks ago, Dale released "Night Cycle" under his Terminal Scout alias. Given his history, over a rather enjoyable 49 (or was it 50?) minutes, it was unsurprising to see him using sound to chart a hyperspeed pathway through sound. Song by song, Dale dissolves the aesthetics of classic rave and hip-house (remember those years when all the big dance records had a guest rap or spoken word segment) into a syncopated, texturally rich take on the glitchier side of 90s electronica (drill'n'bass without the IDM, this is body music), before leaping through a final stargate of sorts into celestial free jazz. When I say celestial free jazz though, we're talking about some kind of interzone between instrument-based, instrumental music and sci-fi/space movie soundtracks, with a touch of pulp dystopian cyberpunk noir.

Most of the songs on "Night Cycle" clock in at somewhere between 7-10 minutes long. This gives Dale plenty of time to establish some themes, deconstruct or reconstruct them, and flesh out some enjoyable journey sequences, which are, as you might guess from above, loaded with signifiers and symbolism. In a review they ran earlier in the year, the thoughtful Recommended Listen blog noted that the American singer-turned-polymath Shamir features on the song "Hey My Baby" (I recommend listening to it as well). In terms of the rest of the vocal elements that pop up across the record, they could be samples, or they could be Dale himself. I'm not that interested in pulling those details apart. On this one, I'm just here to enjoy the journey, and what a journey, or survey of genres and influences it is.

You can listen to "Night Cycle" below via soundcloud, or stream it through Spotify or Apple Music. If you want to purchase the mp3s, I'm just gonna let you know I bought them off the Google Play store.