Crow by @last

Realistically, "Crow" and "Dove" are a joint project, being able to be listened to on loop from the start of one to the end of the other and vice versa. They are very much an attempt at the concept of duality in this new electronic project of mine: i had a clean slate for the sound i wanted to have, and i wanted to experiment both with softer ambient-pop sounds and also harsh hip hop/hyperpop/dance sounds. contrasting the harsh with the soft, the noisy with the silent, the black with the white, you get the idea.... If I wanted to, i could've made these two EPs a full LP and it would have had nearly 40 minutes of music, but i felt it would be better to do what i did: split 5 tracks between each ep where i can explore a sound in its own world not paying mind to wether or not it felt cohesive with the tracks from the other world/soundscape. This is also due to the fact that @last and my electronic work and experience in production was not as deep as the more rock-driven sound of my other project: "deer in headlights"; matter of fact i only came up with the name '@last' last january (2025) and only really started working on most of these songs march through august. So i wanted to be able to have more freedom to explore as much of electronic production as possible.

Talking about Crow in particular, i had always wanted it to be a very sad/pessimistic work, and although i feel like most of the subject matter hits the mark in that aspect, i definitely think i ended up with a much more edm/hyperpop sound than i had expected. The release of JRJRJR was undoubtly one of the most important moments of the year, (already in the first day funnily enough), and it most definitely rewired my brain into thinking "what if i made noisy emo rap". The JRJRJR influence also evident through the fact flyAway\\fullCircle samples the song to all hell. So coming into this project i wanted to have a sort of hip hop - "rage" / "industrial" / "dark sound", although what ended up happening is most of the songs sounding more akin to EDM/electropop/Hyperpop music. Which i'm ok with, it just wasnt my inicial direction i suppose? Another tidbit about the first track, 2close4comfort; i inicially wanted it to be a mix of 'watch' by arca and 'on i go' by fionna apple. i feel like you might be able to hear the on i go influence (especially listening for the odd time signature and accent pattern that is directly taken from that cut) much more than the arca influence (i think i didnt go as far into deconstructed club as i mightve wanted to). About the second track, New jazz (ironically enough, song has nothing to do with jazz) was my attempt at making a digicore / bubblegum bass song like Crush (2hollis) or Immaterial (SOPHIE) but in the time signature of 3/4. You would not believe how hard it was to get it down, it was incredibly difficult to take club patterns that are almost always in 4/4 and convert them into something coherent in 3/4, it was a challenge making the song and it had to be scrapped and re-done at least twice. Similarly, the last track, fullCircle\\flyAway, has its first main body/section in 15/4, although the production might be so chaotic most people might not even be able to tell...

- either way -
with Crow and Dove released, i can say i already have plans in motion for what i want to create with LP1 and LP2 for this project, but i also want to finish a lot of things under the deer in headlights project i have been too busy finishing these 2 EPs to do.

I hope you enjoy this project, be it just the Dove EP, the Crow EP, or both! There is much more to come.

samples:
i - origami angel;"2nd best friend".
ii - n/a
iii - sprain;"god, or whatever you call it".black midi;"sweater".supercollider;"drowning song"
iv - n/a
v - jane remover;"jrjrjr"

7 stars
peculiar electronic music

joão silva
e-mail: atlasttjclique@gmail.com