Second album from Finnish producers Keramick & Lobo aka Jussi Mikkonen and Visa Mäkinen is one quite aptly titled effort. Braille is the blind people’s alphabet and like a blind person in brand new surroundings the Helsinki duo stagger around styles and expressions with electronica the recurring theme. For the most part getting away with it unhurt.

Through the eight songs, and just two clocking in at less than five minutes, highs are reached in melancholic, string-heavy and crackling ballad ‘Gone’ with its goosebumps chorus, filmic ‘Everything You Said Was Lead’ which moves with its yearning “New York City at night” jazz trumpet, acid jazzy ‘Brown-Eyed Susan’ serving up more blue trumpet, and the surprising, rocking title track and album closer.

‘The Braille’ doesn’t have me hanging in there all the way through, but props must go to Keramick & Lobo for their undeniable ability to create downtempo, electro-acoustic soundscapes to get lost in.

Genre: Electronica
Who: Keramick & Lobo
Album: The Braille
Label: Exogenic Breaks
Year: 2009
Country: Finland
Language: English
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Recommended tracks:
Gone – Everything You Said Was Lead – Brown-Eyed Susan – The Braille