Stay A While At Heathered Pearls’ “Warm Air Estate”

Elegant, dazed techno that’s as cool as the other side of the pillow.

June 30, 2015

It's not often that you can pre-order a record online and, while you're at it, add the sculpture that's photographed on the album cover to your cart as well. To Heathered Pearls, also known as the Polish-born and Brooklyn-based artist Jakub Alexander, it's all part of his obsession with texture on his new release, Body Complex. Today we're premiering "Warm Air Estate," a gracefully unfurling techno cut featuring wispy, Rhye-esque vocals courtesy of Outerbridge from the electronic and R&B duo, Beacon.

"Warm Air Estate," which Alexander calls "the misfit on the album," is true to its name in warmth and beat-driven resplendence. "In the early stages I had it paired up with a song that didn't make the album that my friend Tycho was going to play on," Alexander told The FADER, "When I listen to 'Warm Air Estate,' I think more about the early stages of it; it only had this gliding emotional feel to it which I loved, but it was missing something. [Outerbridge] delivered this game-changing angle to it. I was going to go with a Detroit ambient techno with strings route but it ended up being this other animal that really made it a special one for me." Ghostly International will release Body Complex on August 7th (pre-order it here).

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Stay A While At Heathered Pearls’ “Warm Air Estate”