about the record

Primitives is the debut album by Montreal-based artist Stefan Jós, also known as Devon Hansen, who has released music as Lotide on Astro Dynamics and as D. Hansen on Where To Now?.

A spacious and bugged-out sequel to Things You Left Behind, the album retains a sense of careful restraint. However, the crisp clarity of its predecessor gives way on Primitives to loose and moody rhythms, wood and metal textures, strange noises in wet caves, and other goodies for ground-dwellers and mole people alike.