Casha Mour prepares to drop ‘Modern Relics’ EP

London-based electronic artist and producer Casha Mour has been making an impression with a sound where intimacy and experimentation coalesce into immersive musical moments. Since he started creating music back in 2019, Casha Mour has developed a highly original sonic vision built from ambient textures, lo-fi aesthetics and experimental electronica, resulting in music that feels at once delicate and otherworldly.

Releases including debut 2021 album Form, ambient project Drift Tapes and last year’s AA00 have mapped out the shifting spheres of that sound, with each release offering another portal into an increasingly individual electronic landscape. Now, Casha Mour turns towards an instrument with an entirely different history and arriving October 7th, Modern Relics expands on the ambient and experimental stylings of AA00 while placing guitar at the centre of its creative process.

It’s an EP interested not so much in traditional songwriting more in what happens when a familiar instrument is removed from its expected surroundings and placed inside a world of drifting ambience, analogue textures and strange electronic detail. Many of the tracks began with guitar phrases, loops and harmonic sketches and from there, Casha Mour reshaped those fragments through layers of analogue texture and enveloping sound design, allowing the original ideas to become something more abstract.

The guitar remains present but its traditional role is disrupted to become another source of atmosphere, melody and texture within an experimental production setting. Across the six-track release, ambient, downtempo and electronic elements swirls around the guitar, creating music that feels caught between organic and digital spaces. The EP takes an instrument with decades of cultural history and places it inside a sonic world that explores with what happens when the past begins to disappear.

The title itself becomes a fitting frame for those ideas, a relic is something left behind, carrying evidence of a previous moment while existing in a world that has continued without it. Modern Relics distils that contradiction, asking how something can still hold meaning even as its relevance begins to fade. The EP finds melancholy in that process, recognising that progress can also mean losing contact with things that once felt assured and tangible. The cover extends this idea through the image of the passant guardant creature gradually consumed by sunlight, becoming a metaphor for the gradual erasure of the past, a relic slowly fading into obscurity as the world continues to change.

Opened by new single “Save Me / Erase Me,” the EP arrives with the hazy blend of hissing static and the bubble of dark guitar tones, gently developing with drifting textures before the rattle of snapping beats and processed vocals form an engrossing soundscape. Casting a smokey scene instilled with the contrast between immersive instrumentation and subtly driving beats, it’s a stunning showcase of Casha Mour’s sonic vision and the musical context at the heart of the EP. “Homing” forms with the intricate glide of guitar notes as the crisp punch of drums rises and falls below to craft a hypnotic listening experience brimming with delicate melodic flickers and engaging ebb and flow.

“Too Late” floats into a more stripped back setting where the soft plucks of guitar and hushed vocal elements combine to deliver a transportive slice of minimal ambient music. With “Oath,” the stutter of murky texture is met by tapped synth tones and sweeping vocalisations, leaning into the dark ambient stylings of artists like Holy Other. “Toluca” pairs stretched textures with pulsing synth notes and the sparse twang of guitar to create a spacey sound that’s dreamy, wholly absorbing and thoroughly unique while building with the crunch of percussive elements in the final moments.

The closing track “Thirteen” progresses with lilting rhythmic sway as soft vocal lines hover above warm bass tones and gentle guitar notes to deliver a memorable finale to Casha Mour’s superb new EP. With Modern Relics, Casha Mour continues to build on the experimental world of AA00 while moving into new musical areas. The guitar provides the starting point, but the EP ultimately becomes an exploration of memory, technology and change, taking shape as a collection songs informed by the feeling that the future is always arriving while the past quietly slips further away. The EP is also set to arrive as a limited run of 30 cassettes available on Casha Mour’s Bandcamp.

Listen to tracks from Modern Relics below