Please [Clear Vinyl LP]

DJ Plead - Please [Clear Vinyl LP]

A lot can happen in a few years. For DJ Plead's Jarred Beeler that means making a whole new album, throwing it away, then releasing something else entirely. Gleaned from a folder of 120 demos and sketches made between 2023 and 2025, Please is a cool composite of the Lebanese-Australian producer's distinctive musical palette blending the techno, house, and dub of the club with the dabke, mijwiz, and shaabi keys of a Levantine dancing circle.Please follows 2020's Relentless Trills. Dropped as part of Boomkat's Documenting Sound series, that release was a revelation that went beyond the high-intensity hard-drum bangers dropped via Livity Sound, Nervous Horizon, and his own Sumac label into a more ambient spray of his trademark percussion and serpentine maqam melodies. Please is an even more intimate proposition, with its cover featuring a cropped shot of Beeler holding a cup of coffee in one hand, belongings in the other. Phone, keys, pills, Tiger Balm. It's a deeply personal depiction of the everyday that echoes the unhurried emotional resonance of the album's track listing. A mournful ambient follows the embellished trundle of "Seven Eight, Too Late" as it's haunted by downtempo atmospherics. The gently grooved piano, guitar, and bass of closer "Traffic" cascade with the organic (more...)