Lav's Music Corner

Review by Lav:  Jelly Diver is an electronic music project that debuted last year and fuses the frenetic pacing of genres like breakcore and jungle with the cloudy nostalgia of retro video game soundtracks. The debut album from Jelly Diver cybercrystals  arrived back in April but in line with a rapid-fire series of new releases dating back to last year, more music arrived in a hurry. To quote the Instagram post announcing this new EP, it began as an attempt to "simplify the formula," but ended up "devolving into madness," a promise that the project more than makes good on.  That isn't to say that the music here is ever necessarily simple. Opener dotonbori   dreams  is somewhat chaotic right out of the gate. It kicks the record off with stuttering breakcore drums contrasted by distant dreamy synths. It bounces between moments seeped in the contrast of hazy and precise, though they're intercut with stranger passages where the backing chorus of synths fade out ...