The vaguely sinister "Throw" is taken from Laurel Halo's forthcoming Behind The Green Door EP, out next month on Hyperdub. Featuring an "out-of-tune, watery, evil-sounding" upright piano:
Those glowing previews from the other day hinted at the brilliance of Burial's new Truant EP, and now the London producer has dropped both of his latest devastating/sprawling multi-part suites a few days early. Listen to both new tracks by purchasing them from Hyperdub here...
Burial is dropping the follow up to his incredible Kindred EP on the great Hyperdub next week. Listen to short preview clips of both tracks from ONE / TWO here, via FACT.
Laurel Halo injects a warped frenetic groove into Lianne La Havas' charming and soulful single "Forget" on this spacey, bass-heavy techno remix. Download Laurel's rework, and check Lianne's original video, below. In other Laurel Halo news, she has a new release called Sunlight on The Faded -- comprised of all non-Quarantine tracks -- coming soon on Hyperdub, and her U.S. tour kicks off
Laurel Halo's gorgeous new LP Quarantine is out in June on Hyperdub. We premiered "Light + Space" last month, and you can now listen to the record in its entirety, courtesy of FACT. Featuring (at least) one of our favorite songs of 2012, the otherworldly "Thaw," which gets underway right around the 7-minute mark:
"I started out with a ton of echo and reverb on the vocals, but it sounded supremely boring to me, so I was curious how they’d sound dry in the arrangements and got rid of most of the wetness...It was tempting to use autotune but I decided against it because there’s this brutal, sensual ugliness in the vocals uncorrected, and painfully human vocals made sense for this record" -- Laure
Very into the new Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland LP Black Is Beautiful that drops one week from today on Hyperdub, which you can listen to now exclusively over at Resident Advisor. Bizarre + disorienting dubby vibes abound as expected with these two, but perhaps the weirdest thing here is that track 2 is a lovely cover of one of our all-time favorite slow jams -- Donnie & Joe Emerson's "
After a couple of false starts, Burial's long-awaited new Kindred EP is now available on mp3 / wav from Hyperdub. Listen to the sprawling, glowing/haunted EP in its entirety -- and grab the whole thing for just a few £s -- over at Hyperdub's website...