Disclosure's new track, Boiling, features Sinead Harnett, is the first snippet of a release from the duo on Greco-Roman. This is Dubstep's Radio 2 moment, just under four minutes of lushly produced synths and drum patterns, huge vocal melodies. Or maybe it's loungestep? Dubstep for a hotel bar, coated in red velvet, Sinead Harnett is an evening dress, and disclosure manipulating Abelton in tuxedos.
With dubstep's assault on the charts last year, and it's metamorphoses into brain-dead 'brostep' in America, you'd think it'd be creatively dead, yet it seems that it's shattered into about a thousand pieces and has sprung up everywhere, sounding usually nothing like it forbears. PMR Records is one of those at the forefront of pushing the sound into new directions, with L-Vis 1990, Julio Bashmore and Jessie Ware, who were all rooted in dubstep, moving into the shady area of 'post'. Whilst L-Vis moved into glimmering, chrome-plated and bass-laden house, and Bashmore reunited UK Garage with Dubstep into slinking, emotive, clubjams, Jessie Ware uses her heartbreaking voice to propel it towards more soulful territory.
Ripped straight from Benji B's Radio1 show, comes three tracks from the new Actress record on Honest Jon's. The follow up to 2010's 'Splazsh', this new record is, from the sounds of this preview, a wholly darker affair, and with a title like R.I.P that's probably to be expected.
Where 'Splazsh' bubbled and hummed like a living, breathing, techno organism, 'R.I.P' skulks and swoons, hides in dark corners. 'Ascending' is so delicate and subtle, Actress gently probes at it, that if any force was put upon it then it'd collapse. Caves of Paradise owes a clear debt to the psychogeographical bass of Burial, whilst Iwwad may start off like a it's going to drop into a standard techno affair, but it's really on the brink of collapsing in on itself, using only its sample to stay afloat.
Buy R.I.P by Actress here
