Renwartherger craft an all-encompassing sound on EP, “Moving”
With their new seven-track EP “Moving,” Renwartherger continue to solidify their reputation as one of the most intriguing and unpredictable forces in underground electronic music. Just shared officially on December 5th, the project is their second offering of the year, following their awesome EP “Faint Residue”. Rather than playing it safe, “Moving” doubles down on experimentation, creating a world that feels simultaneously intimate, alien, and irresistibly grooveable!
Renwartherger have become synonymous with a hypnotic blend of floating synths, post-punk, and grungey aesthetics, and that sonic DNA is incredibly alive and evolving here. The EP drifts between ambient electronic textures and grooves that are quite fluid. One moment you’re suspended in cinematic atmospheres and the next you’re locked into a gritty, late-night rhythm that feels built for strobe lights and shadowy dance floors. To call it unpredictable would be an understatement, yet there’s still so much cohesiveness from song to song.
Sound design is absolutely the quiet hero of this record. Every track feels sculpted in a way that’s almost hard to explain. Spoken-word passages appear like transmissions, drifting through the mixes and adding a human tension to the otherwise synthetic style. These moments make the EP feel super personal.
A major highlight of “Moving” has to be the collaboration with Jillian Raye and Jennifer Johnson, both members of the Seattle-based grunge supergroup 3rd Secret. Their presence adds such a fun edge to Renwartherger’s electronic core, bridging generations and genres in a way that’s absolutely a collab made in heaven. The contrast between their vocals and the project’s shadowy production deepens the EP.
Across its seven tracks, “Moving” really never settles into one single mood for too long. It shifts between meditative, mechanical, or haunting, sometimes within the same song! It’s experimental but not just for the sake of “being weird” and truly adventurous without losing its sense of groove. That balance makes the project feel not only ambitious, but genuinely fun to listen to. The more we’ve listened closely, the more we’ve actually been able to absorb considering how dense some of these textures are.
As a follow-up to their earlier release this year, “Moving” feels less like a continuation and more like a bold forward step. If it happens to be your introduction to the project, we can’t think of a better way to dive on into the deep end. From the brightness to the exotic, they’ve covered all their bases in creating something that’s legitimately fun and progressive. Click those links below to listen in and of course to follow along for more.
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