Skycabin Makes Desire Feel Like Displacement

Skycabin’s COVET starts from desire, although the word gets darker once Farbod Khoshtinat and Sepand Bahrami start pulling it apart. Desire can mean wanting another person, wanting escape, wanting to return home, wanting to become someone else, or wanting the past to stop changing shape every time memory touches it.
For a duo of Iranian musicians who built new lives in California, that last part gives the EP a sharper emotional charge than any genre note about trip-hop, dark pop, or &rsquo