infina ad nausea

Brooklyn’s QRTR returns to Dome of Doom with their second album, infina ad nausea—a jubilant eleven-track spiral through house, electro and IDM that makes repetition feel like a virtue. Where 2020’s Drenched sketched the outlines of QRTR’s woozy, melodic sound, this record colours them in properly, every track circling a shared melodic centre like the groove of a vinyl record.

The title is Latin for “endlessly, to the point of nausea”, and QRTR leans into that conceit from the first bar. The Outer Edge (feat. ambientkitty) opens on soft-focus pads and swung hats, the vocal drifting in like morning light, whilst With You (feat. artemis orion) tightens into a proper house shuffle, its four-to-the-floor pulse carried on a bassline that rolls rather than pushes. Want Me 2 is the first real peak—a euphoric electro-pop cut whose off-kilter stabs keep the bounce just this side of polite.

The engine room sits in the middle stretch. Running From It pairs a rubbery electro bassline with swung percussion and a hook that dissolves into reverb-soaked distance; Fractals layers glitchy IDM textures over a patient groove until the edges blur; and Like That, the longest cut at 5:34, stretches a descending synth motif over deep, rolling bass. The brief Nossa - Interlude then resets the palate with nothing but air and echo.

The guests are deployed with care rather than box-ticking. Daniel de Lara’s breathy falsetto gives Blame Me its bruised, late-night soul, whilst CSLTY’s Ritual snaps back into the club with urgent stabs and a drum pattern that never lands where you expect. Rewind folds the album’s motifs back on themselves, and Lucid (feat. Braille) closes the spiral in 1:47 of sparse, gorgeous calm—a landing after all that spinning.

Mastered by Ryan Schwabe, the engineer behind Oneohtrix Point Never’s most immersive records, infina ad nausea sounds immaculate at every volume—bass weighty without drowning the detail around it. That Bandcamp Daily named it an Essential Release is no surprise: this is an album that rewards the very repetition its title warns against. Jubilant, considered and quietly addictive, it’s a sophomore record from an artist fully in their stride.