This short EP containss UK electronic composer Oliver Buckland's contributions to Joel Guerra's playful and hypnogogic, digital folk tale Temptation Stairway- a short film that follows the polygonal protagonist Ena as she attempts to win a race against her friend Moony in order to have her ultimate wish granted. Inspired by the highly abstract sequence events which it accompanies, Oliver Buckland's score is firmly grounded in a familiar pastiche of new age new wave, percussive progressive jazz, PC soundcard scans, and bubbly spritzes of yacht rock- a medley of sound that is as carefree as it is captivating. The EP begins delightfully with lush and jaunty "Hourglass Meadow" which will leave you in a frolicking mood after a brief encounter with its bantering piano lines, plush rainbow-hued electronics, and crispy, batter-fried beat. Things do get a little trippy from there with the battery acid-soaked wipe-out of "Radical Phindoll," but thereafter charts a course for smoother sailing, passing through the shimmering ingress of "Venturing into the Pyramid" and finally exiting via the divine, echo-chamber drift of "Dead God Graveyard." Dare to dream in 32-bit resolution tonight as you give Oliver Buckland's Temptation Stairway OST a spin.
