BLACK VINYL 2xLP.
"What those who haven’t caught one of her club sets might not know is that Halo is also a top-notch DJ, with a facility for the sorts of forceful rhythms absent from her recent albums. Chief among her skills: A nonstop negotiation between peak-time thrills and the thorniest rhythmic thickets—an on-again, off-again détente as gripping as any geopolitical drama. That’s precisely what she does on DJ-Kicks, her first commercial mix album. The atonal pianos that open the session—Halo’s own “Public Art,” exclusive to this set—are a fakeout, the equivalent of dry-ice fog wafting over an empty floor as the club’s doors open. Not a minute in, she plunges headfirst into a chugging, EBM-inspired beat, kicking off an unbroken stretch of shapeshifting grooves that won’t let up, save for one brief breather, for the next hour."