As Baths, electronic artist Will Wiesenfeld scored a number of rave reviews and new fans with last year’s full-length Obsidian. He returns a year later with a new, appropriately-titled EP in Ocean Death. Dank, propulsive electronic music like this – the title track calls to mind a number of Tri-Angle artists – merits that name.

Anticon is selling Ocean Death as a “companion piece” to Obsidian, citing that the title track pre-dates 2010’s Cerulean. Perhaps that’s why some were not wholly impressed. The track feels a bit slight, but it has a relaxed, hypnotic bass that could pulse on for ages.

Baths broke through to an extant that many similar artists hadn’t quite managed; the follow-up to his big sophomore album, even if it is more of a throwback, is worthy of a spin. It’s only twenty minutes, after all. Just don’t expect it to open quite as brilliantly as “Worsening.”

Out May 6 on Anticon, the five-track Ocean Death is now streaming via Pitchfork Advance.

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