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There, he co-founded Booma Collective with Oren Ratowsky and Valentin Stip, a local group of musicians and sound artists, as well as a music label. Swing is a sort of summation of Paul’s time in Montreal and his first full solo release outside of Booma. For Paul, Swing is movement, sound, and hypnosis. That fine, affective modulation, as present in a drum machine or a drummer’s hand, plays a role. But so too does Paul’s memory of winter sessions in Booma’s studio (ironically named “The Furnace”), where he and his friends had to swing their bodies back and forth to keep warm. The five tracks on Swing evoke warmth within cold, cavernous spaces. “Descent” begins the EP with a one synth panning and undulating quietly left and right before the drop of a gentle, knowing beat. Next, “Swing” bursts open with a tremendous kick looming over tumultuous layers of bass frequency filigreed by glowing chords. The gruff, calloused percussion of “Vitamin C” sounds like its rattling inside the case of a grenade. And “Short Circuit,” the longest track here and an awesome demonstration of polyrhythmic capacity, doubles as jagged sound sculpture. “Seahorses” ends the EPlike it began — a single synth swaying to and fro.