A photograph of Sean McBride-- the Brooklyn-based composer who sets sound to tape here under the alias Martial Canterel-- in the booklet of his new LP, You Today, depicts him surrounded by vintage synths and vast snake-like deposits of wires. The photograph frames McBride as a custodian staring pensively at his collected wares. But his curatorial role doesn't stop short at his hardware collection. His work here, and as one-half of Xeno and Oaklander, pays slavish homage to the anti-rock artifice of the coldwave scene from the early 1980s, much of which has been revived, reissued, and subsequently regurgitated via the Minimal Wave label. is an attempt by McBride to feed through another oblique Xerox of that era, where austere vocals are stiffly reinforced by frigid layers of synths, all set in rigid motion by the brutal clop of a vintage step sequencer.