There Was A Button - (6:25) 122 BPM
Gut Man Cometh - (5:34) 125 BPM
Celestial Antibody - (0:58) 125 BPM
Destroyer - (5:59)
123 BPM Bob The Builder - (1:49) 110 BPM
Timewarp - (5:30) 125 BPM
Zunk Synth - (4:21) 125 BPM
Review: The first Audion album in ten years shows that Matthew Dear's project has lost none of its raw ferocity. This is audible on opening track "Dem", where a droning groove ensnares wooden, clunky percussion and haunted vocals in its whirlpool-like cascade and then on the gated, distorted gnawing rhythms of "Destroyer". On other occasions, Dear sounds more comfortable flirting with classic sounds; "There Was a Button" is perfectly adequate, acid-led trancey techno from the 90s and "Gut Man Commeth" revisits the edgy minimalism of early Hawtin. However, no matter what influences he mines, there is a hyperactively jittery sound aesthetic at play, audible as much on the slow-motion hoover-led grind of "Bob the Builder" as it is on the rickety minimalism of "Napkin".
from $1.89K 7333D
10 Jun 16
Minimal/Tech House