KALIPO レコード& CD

Review: Curiously, Kalipo seems only to release albums. His 2014 debut full-length, Yaruto, appeared out of the blue, as has this confident follow-up. Like that set, Wanderer offers a picturesque, melodious take on electronic music, with Kalipo fusing floor-friendly, soft-focus tech-house rhythms with the home listening-friendly ideals of IDM and leftfield pop. While there are plenty of tracks that will sound weighty over club sound systems - see the tech-trance cheeriness of "Banana Garden", and the oh-so-deep bliss of "Institute of Cottonwool" - it's the album's woozy, meditative properties that most impress. Kalipo is a producer with the gift of melody, and he gleefully uses that to the full.