Each composition on Padesip, the debut project from Brussels-based electronic artist Gijs Milius, splices together disparate ways of seeing and hearing. Though most of the songs are between 2 and 3 minutes long, they feel rich, embodied, and surprising, full of left turns and tiny moments of tension that you want to comb through the composition to hear again. Listening to these curious and tactile compositions feels a bit like using a viewfinder toy to flip between images of lakes, canyons, and skyscrapers in a matter of seconds.

"AC LOV" begins with a warbly, verdant synth gurgle before transitioning into shimmery, metallic beats. “Pielewap 2” is graceful and spiritual, evoking church organs or summer time day dreams. But before you settle too deeply into a euphoric vibe, Milius follows up with “betaald cadeau,” which begins inky and propulsive before turning diaphanous and feather-light.

Milius is a painter and sculptor, and his music can be understood in visual terms too: the murky, meandering notes on “chanson” are occasionally interrupted by a jolt of synth evoking a dark green canvas that is tinged with electric blue paint in real time. And the beat on “gratis kado” is soft and rounded but also propulsive, like a rock rolling down a spongey, mossy hill. The images that these songs evoke are less static scenes or still life portraits than they are moments of change, unexpected contrast, or transformation. This music is always on the verge of becoming something new without ever quite arriving there. It’s that sense of reaching, of infinite possibility, that makes these songs so intriguing, life affirming, and infinitely listenable." - Vrinda Jagota