As an Austin native Rob From Garden Street s tastes are the evolving sum of a hundred festival lineups. Having grown up with a love of 90s hip-hop he began making beats in the late 00s prompted by the illegally downloaded catalogs of Kanye West J Dilla and MF Doom. Confronted daily with the increasingly compromised identity of his East Austin neighborhood Rob cites beatmaking as his chosen coping mechanism sometimes withdrawing for weeks at a time to curate drum kits source samples and emerge with experimental new material to test on local showcases such as Austin Instrumental Music Fest Imaginary Stereo and Exploded Drawing. Post-Love Rob s first release on the Insect Records label was provoked by his revulsion towards the plethora of disposable relax/study beats he now finds traumatically intolerable ever since breaking up with his own cat-owning despondent girl in a sweater. Produced over a single year the tape serves as a soundtrack to catharsis and the shedding of old skin. Post-Love s 17 song collection adds a kinetic electrical burned complexity to the analog boom-bap formula departing from the standard breakbeats and chops that defined the dusty crate-digging sound of Rob s early bumps. From the swarming percussive blitz of it s opening song-samples scorched beyond algorithmic recognition-the tape s decidedly un-chill track list sidesteps the contemporary interpretation of lo-fi as low energy instead offering an exciting mix of melodic influences at a Ritalin s BPM ranging from the aggressively off-kilter to the downright symphonic.