Everything Coated in Reverb

Syndromes, the debut album from Brooklyn duo The Golden Filter, sounds like it exists slightly outside of time—cold synths and Penelope Trappes’ voice moving through the same space without quite touching, everything soaked in reverb long enough to make you lose track of where any given song began. Steve Moore’s production sits somewhere between early New Order and dream-pop: mechanical and warm in the same breath, in the way only certain electronic records manage. It came out in 2010 on Ghostly International and I keep returning to it the way you return to a room where something happened, not entirely sure what you’re looking for.