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Before digital video cameras ruled the vacation landscape, analog Super 8 film cameras were king, and they documented the adventures of most American families during the 1970s. A generation later, reels of old sound Super 8 home movies re-emerge as the aural scenery to Random Portraits of the Home Movie, the stunning and infectious solo debut from Sushirobo guitarist Dave Einmo. Sampling sounds from Super 8 movies his parents shot in the late 70s, Einmo gorgeously honors the past within the recalculated framework of the present, seamlessly tying epic pop overtones to sunny bliptronic beat patterns while cinematically animating moments from his own family's Super 8 films, which serve as the album's inspiration and narrative. Produced and mixed by Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Red Red Meat, Iron and Wine, Secret Machines) at Chicago's Engine Studios, Random Portraits draws from Einmo's fascination with the subtractive arrangements of trip hop and krautrock, but is executed using ...