Lifted turn Movie into arthouse ambience with CDJs, bagpipes and studio ghosts

Lifted’s Movie enters the 29 June review cycle as one of the day’s most intriguing electronic records, partly because it seems to treat the studio like a half-lit cinema set. The D.C. duo of Andrew Field-Pickering and Matt Papich work with CDJs, modular tools, improvising peers, Foley sounds and scraps of dialogue, shaping ambient-jazz sketches into something closer to a moving-image collage than a conventional album. Pitchfork notes the project’s interest in fly-on-the-wall immediacy, with musicians discovering ideas in the room while the duo reorganize the material digitally. That tension is the appeal: spontaneous human playing meeting careful DJ logic. Movie sounds like an album where the scene is always changing, but the editors know exactly where the dream should cut. It is less soundtrack than strange documentary of a room thinking out loud.

Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/lifted-movie/