Nerve Bumps: A Queer Divine Dissatisfaction vinyl

As debut albums go, Dax Pierson's Nerve Bumps: A Queer Divine Dissatisfaction has to rank highly. A joint release from Dark Entries Records and Oakland's Ratskin Records collective, the album is deeply personal and offers a musical journey inspired by Pierson's own remarkable life so far. Starting with the fizzing electronics, psychedelic arpeggio lines and clattering machine drums of 'Adhesion', Pierson flits between bubbly, acid-laden IDM ('For The Angels'), deep space ambient ('Snap'), swirling starburst electronica ('I Slay The Pain'), off-kilter new wave instrumentals ('Catch'), redlined electro ('Keflex') and the kind of immersive electronic bliss that will have the hairs on the back of your neck standing to attention ('For 2_24').