Éditions Appærent is delighted to present Temporary Plates Take An Exit, the new album from enigmatic New York producer Sharp Veins, which sees him drawing his mystical synth explorations from out of the swamp and into the sunlight. His most direct release to date still finds him knee-deep in blurred and hazy compositional territory, but with foregrounded vocals and pop hooks blooming out of the dust. A cache of homemade unheimlich road movie cassingles that spent too much time baking in the sun, Temporary Plates Take An Exit is direct in its approach and length while still following the producer on his usual explorations into various territories like canned orchestral dark ambient, screwed and sunblind pop, and concrète power ballads. There’s a grubby fidelity to these songs that nevertheless fails to hide their pop charm, like the Dawson’s Creek theme song blasting out of a blown speaker in a pickup cab. Lead single “Please Stop Talking” is built around an anthemic chorus and a dehydrated motorik beat, singing the ultra-relatable: “I wish I’d shut my fucking mouth.” Shot through with strains of early-00s indie and a shoegazing refusal of clarity, even the instrumental songs on the record have an evocative sense of narrative to them.