$quib make Erring feel like Ableton twee learning to love its mistakes

$quib’s Erring gets reviewed on 1 July, and the record sounds like a debut that turns half-baked ideas into a whole philosophy. Pitchfork places the New Jersey project in the current laptop-twee or indietronica revival, where singer-songwriter intimacy gets bent through Ableton, glitch-pop, skramz, cloud rap and micro-sample bricolage. The duo is presented as Brock Bierly and fictional cyclops Krotida Satyr, which already tells you the project prefers unstable authorship to clean branding. Erring is described as a compilation of half-baked ideas that somehow coalesce into epic songs of the self. That is a beautiful premise for a debut because it lets error become method. Tracks cut out, warp, restart and stumble into meaning, while delicate vocals try to catch silver linings inside chaos. Erring sounds like music made by someone who knows mistakes are not interruptions. They are the material.

Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/squib-erring/