Barbieri was already an established musician

in as much as it is a recording of an ambience or soundscape

Nine Eleven

cracked the studio windows

EXPENSIVE LOOKS - Dark Matters LP Beats Barbieri was already an establishedAlec Field grew up in New York on a steady diet of Chicago house, disco, old Motown stuff and a smattering of his parents' psych records, as well as "trashy '90s dance." Dark Matters is his debut LP as Expensive Looks. It flows continuously across nine tracks, touching on elements of all the music he grew up on: hypnotic house, textured minimalism, and the gorgeous moment of musical epiphany that happens when a beat drops out and all that's left is