At first listen, Shaw is easy to dismiss, especially if you listen to the album through a low quality stereo system or bad pair of headphones. The beauty of this one man, electronic project from San Francisco, California is in his painstaking attention to detail. The opening track and album title, “pretending we’re not animals” strikes a shocking resemblance to the postal services’ “recycled air” with moodier glitchy beats hidden underneath many layers of ambient synth pads. It’s apparent that Shaw spends a great deal of time automating his ...