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Boy Eats Drum Machine is Portland singer, producer, songwriter, visual artist and multi-instrumentalist Jon Ragel. Hoop + Wire is his 4th album and his second for Portland label Tender Loving Empire. Disparate ideas and sweeping themes bob and weave throughout Hoop + Wire's 38 minutes to form an aural landscapes replete with a big crisp rhythm section, tasteful turntableism, and confident baritone sax. Sweeping symphonic samples receive treatments of organic percussion both traditional and Foley, while the lyrical content reveals both introspective and dark passages. Equal parts Postal Service, DJ Shadow and Morphine assorted layers come together in grand fashion through BEDM's cohesive tales of envy, bravado and challenge.