Transfer Resistor, the debut release by Stableford, explores relentlessly energetic hard-quantized synth styles reminiscent of the 1980s.
The album features contemporary impressions of classic technologies. Vocoders, mono leads, arpeggiators and 8-bit basses combine in cosmic appropriations of heritage electronica. It includes the lazy saw-tooth shuffle of “Sloth”, the bristling dual leads of “Panda”, the undulating key centers of “Asiatic”, the stark ballad beauty of “Sun”, the pop intensity of “Brown” and the austere slow-burn of “Polar”.