Suki Quasimodo - I Feel Like (Random Artifacts)

The Slow Music Movement
Apr 24
2 min read

Suki Quasimodo is a multi-disciplinary Singaporean artist who has been resident in London for the last twelve years, which I'm guessing is a more welcoming home for her genre ambiguous sonic deviance and technology enhanced hallucinations. After years of creating warped visuals for the corporate world as a graphic designer, she's now set on soundtracking her life and imagination, and luckily for us she's thinking outside the box, so don't expect any tired old love songs and verse chorus verse cliche.

Slow, deliberate, ritualist percussion gets the ball rolling, swiftly jointed by sound source unknown ambient constructs and spectral vocals for an ancient meets future vibe that pleasingly doesn't sound like too much else, but hold tight for the vocals. It seems that Quasimodo has a nice line in seductive, borderline ASMR spoken words. As we know nothing good happens quickly and just as you're trying to decipher the metaphor shrouded self analysis some pitched down club hooks say hello, paving the way for some low frequency anchored ambient pads that warm and transport in equal measure.

But don't stop there. Get yourself over to the jazz poetry meets opiated club ambience of "Virtue", pulsing, sub-woofer worrying downtempo futurism of "Requiem" and the rumbling ambient on "Don't Fall-Ascend". Despite only being on the recorded music scene for six months there's some serious freshness at play here - not to mention the stellar visual accompaniments - the girl can do it all and does it her way, so get with the program before everyone else catches up.