Hey! A friend sent me this track and I enjoyed it; here's what I wrote back about the music and its appeal.
"It's interesting how on the second listen the abrasive qualities become less surprising and you can hear all the other little details. The call and responses between the parts, cool rhythms/time signature changes which are repeated just enough. Some beautiful jazz chord progressions here too. I took a few minutes to figure out some of them; 0:24-0:35 it's Fm9, Dbmaj7, Am#11. 2:29 it's Bbmaj7, Gm9, Abmin-maj7. Super pretty and unique."
In the end the things I'm calling "abrasive" here (meaning a number of unusual dissonances and sounds) aren't really abrasive at all. It grows on you and eventually it all just sounds cool. Great work.