Album Review: Buke And Gase Are Experimental “Scholars”

Buke And Gase’s new album, Scholars, is like an unconventional concerto; as if someone through Mozart in a blender with synths and analogs. The result is a record that does feel scholarly or like a “how-to” on how to make the different delectable. 

From “Pink Boots” to “Eternity,” Scholars, rhythmically, swerves and curves like a light beam that has no plans on landing. It feels stellar because it zooms and zips through sounds that cannot, truly, be pinpointed. Part of the charm of this record is that Buke And Gase have combined acoustics with digitized sonics to turn them one in the same. Throughout songs such as, “Stumbler,” “Derby,” and “Flock,” their songs feel patterned into sultry and seedy chaos. They have made attractive random, mid-way alterations to a song’s melody, and make you enjoy the unknown of a track’s ending. Still, Arone Dyer’s voice works as a steady, high pitching guide to the worlds they build with their sound.

What I love about Scholars is that Buke And Gase use electronica like the pages of a story. They use their verses in their electro rhythms as if they are sheets of paper, and Dyer’s voice is the pen making notes. It is perfect that her vocality feels steady and unflinching because it helps balance the pop madness behind her. With so much happening in terms of their hooks, resonances, basslines, refrains, and segues, Dyer’s vocality becomes an emblem that a person’s voice is found through experimentation. While their sound pushes and swells over boundaries, their lyrics are all about feeling confined by them and using your inner voice to guide you away from limits. Thus, Buke and Gase’s Scholars, in sound and style, does not fail to exemplify the only way to be unique is to be undefinable.  To Buy Buke And Gase’s Scholars Album On January 18 Click Here.