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Whitearmor's Croatian Amor Remix Is a Crushing Ambient Ballad

The Swedish producer's flip of "Finding People" makes the simple song feel destructive.
Photo by Traianos Pakioufakis

Part of the joy of following the work of Posh Isolation boss Loke Rahbek is that you never really know what form he's going to take. Under a handful of solo monikers and even more collaborations he's made creeping noise, mutated punk, glammy synth pop, florid ambient pieces, among other styles and sounds. Each release is different from the last—so its no surprise that Finding People, his new EP as Croatian Amor, feels like such a surprise.

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Once dedicated to glacial synth music, the project has recently been drifting into more traditionally song-like territory—its distant synth voices coalescing into recognizable shapes and bright colors. Finding People pushes that even further—its creeping compositions are nearly pop-like in their ghostly refrains, and the title track even features Rahbek singing a dazed ballad. Today, he's making the connections to radio-ready realms more explicit with a remix from Whitearmor, a Swedish producer who's contributed a number of beats to the rappers of the Sad Boys crew.

Like Rahbek's work, Whitearmor's productions for Yung Lean and Bladee have an shapeshifting quality to them—he deals comfortably in both blunted ambience or gravity-defying bass explorations. His flip of "Finding People" finds him doing both at once, twisting Rahbek's swooning synth pads into abstract melodies and obliterating the stillness with rim-rattling basslines. It's crushing stuff, made all the more affecting by Rahbek's pitch-shifted apologies stalking the track's margins. You can listen below, or snag Finding People over on the Posh Isolation site.