Drawn to dark nights in the streets of the pre-dystopian metropolis we call New York City, bound by light traces of oscillating neon from the corner store bodega, enraptured by the glint from the prisms powering William Gibson's Camaro, we find Dorian Love, codenamed New Hero, etching out soundscapes for the lucid dreams of the city's revolutionaries, fashionistas, and various sundry cyborgs. With his Ableton Launchpad controller ablaze like a forgotten Tron level, Love sends out synergistic, passionate blasts of freon soaked cyberpunk.

Despite growing up in a musical household where he and his father both played intricate jazz, Love gravitated towards music's stranger side, stop-starting rambunctious projects and post-hardcore bands while carving out his own niche as a teenager. The result of this wild eclecticism would be birthed into the universe like the future-baby in 2001: A Space Odyssey in the form of New Hero-- the perfect, evolved, logical next step for a young musician more comfortable twisting knobs and experimenting in sound than playing indie rock in dive bars to faceless, disaffected, aging hipsters. The new music, though, is the perfect soundtrack for Decepticons spilling molotov cocktails on a Rick Owens gown at goth night. There's the pulsing beat of night-driving nu-trance that is “Volca”, the darkly romantic, oddly ambient “8.31.15 (No Drums)”, or the Neu! by-way-of TV On the Radio robo-dance of “Third (VHS)”; they all converge to create a sound that is wholly Dorian Love. And although the artist is soon to join the ranks of the multi-monikered techno brethren, his heart is New Hero-- a sound that unfolds as a cyborg chimera etching chemtrails in the night sky.  -Alex Smith (Metropolarity)

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