Growing up in a distant region of Planet Ontario, young Randy Gagne found himself fascinated by a man-made hill running alongside a busy road, built to filter out the din of the local traffic. This hill, an organic but also strangely unnatural feature of the landscape, was the genesis of the project’s namesake, and it’s fertilized a rich creative terrain on which Gagne has ploughed 20+ DIY solo albums of lo-fi homegrown weirdness. 

Delicious Logo, the result of two years of close collaboration, marks Gagne’s second foray into a professional studio setting with Greenspan behind the mixing board. Building upon their 2022 joint effort, Mirage Repair (Orange Milk Records), this latest heap of miniature fantasies finds the pair widening their scope of sonic surveillance, and galvanizing their off-kilter pop sensibilities into a bewildering prismatic smorgasbord. This time around, the two set no deadlines and naturally deepened their creative relationship, working hard at a pleasurable pace to boil down and fully digest the sound of Man Made Hill, creating a uniquely mystifying transmission beyond time that leaves the listener wondering where they came in. The tantalizing atmosphere offers a tsunami windfall of sleazy synth pop, jagged funk, and sinister existential disco. And despite all of this madness, it adds up to Man Made Hill’s most flat-out crowd-pleasing album to date, without sacrificing one single iota of the weird post-pop edge Gagne’s fans adore.