Frequently bouncing between straight club music and more ambient meanderings, Tomu DJ has leaned into the latter on her latest work <3. In fact, this one goes even further with the track “Bamboo Garden” (ft. blessings nore), a piece of acoustic string-style americana that sounds as far from the club as a fallen log in the forest, providing shelter to insects and blooming mushroom caps. Most of the rest of the album presents what sound like live recorded improvisations and ambient techno meditations, lush with repetition and sounds of the natural world. A healing piece for violent times.
