Kevin Bronson on March 29th, 2016

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Dylan Neal has found the spirits in the machines. Neal, who previously explored avant-garde metal with Bay Area conceptualists Botanist, has moved from nature to spirituality as inspiration for his new electronic project THIEF, which he calls music for anybody who’s “danced and cried in a haunted church.” His dense, dark tomes are composed with manipulated sacred chant music. On “Skin to Jade,” trip-hop beats commingle with a forest of haunting voices that send the imagination reeling. The L.A.-based THIEF, who has done remixes of Bjork and Flying Lotus, has completed the full-length album “Thieves Hymn in D Minor,” which will come out this summer via Lay Bare Recordings. Live, Neal is joined by Chris Hackman (of the Fuzzy Crystals) and R. Chiang. Music for getting your Gregorian on?

||| Stream: “Skin to Jade”