TOKiMONSTA - Creature Dreams EP

Something of a productive insomniac, Jennifer Lee’s Creature Dreams is, perhaps unsurprisingly, the definition of bleary. Actually you wouldn’t have batted an eyelid if she had named this Creature Comforts, such is the expectation of plasticine animals to cuddle up to one another in Lee’s spheres of serenity. Unlike some of the Brainfeeder slumber party, Tokimonsta is able to wake up without groggy after effects feeling bad before it can get on with the rest of the day. Bright Shadows and Little Pleasures are lovely pop hallucinations where Lee opens up little pockets of charm with Robyn-esque tones.  
Darkest (Dim) confidently steps into a subconscious wonderland where everything is defined in regular 20-20 vision, Toki evading both the super hi-def and the ultra aqueous. The paradise of Day Job does begin to tug at your good humour with a conspicuous fade in personality, underlined further on Stigmatizing Sex: a wishy-washy suspension and a falling between stools, where a bit of dungeons and dragons battle-hardening could do both the world of good.

Fallen Arches steps into the breach and shows that these crumbs of indifference might have earned their EP rights as the signposted gateway between awake and asleep. Dragged along by a pair of heavyweight boots as what were distinctive visuals begin to blur heavily, it’s a Brainfeeder signature of compression against distortion, showing Tokimonsta running the spectrum of dream sequences where a quick nap now may become your last. Moving Forward is a full on strop of a 'trip-hop' revisit, as sleep deprivation kicks in and the snugness of the duvet becomes a tourniquet around the neck, monochrome drums thwacked and guitars slashed throughout a digitised film noir.