Listening to this, it's my favorite album this year.
"Never Never", "Go Bang" and "Something Goes Right" are standouts, for me.
Re: SBTRKT's album, free stream
Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:44 pm
by Bloodstream
have a new livesession too will up them later !
Re: SBTRKT's album, free stream
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:46 am
by bidwell
wildfire =
Re: SBTRKT's album, free stream
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 7:29 am
by acolmer
certainly sounding sick, look forward to the live session!
Re: SBTRKT's album, free stream
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 6:25 pm
by fractal
Bloodstream wrote:have a new livesession too will up them later !
Re: SBTRKT's album, free stream
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 9:27 pm
by Bloodstream
here it is mates !!!!
SBTRKT made his name hiding behind a mask, remixing the likes of M.I.A., Basement Jaxx and Modeselektor. And here, he’s kept the veneer while doing somewhat of a showy back-flip – by bringing in an A-grade line-up of guest vocalists, he’s given his own music the stage and produced a debut album almost unbelievably bursting with ground-zero moments, unexpected side-turns and slinky promises. This set packs the kind of hustle biologically required to (hopefully) scale the charts and explode into new places.
It’s a both timeless and timely album, for the mix of right-now production – a haughty brew of clean-but-intricate beats, squeaks and wobbles – with chart-ready choruses. On headphones, it’s fixated on the image of a desolate figure lugging their emotional haul through the dancefloor while the night goes on around them, free of fluff and full of power. Through the right PA, its mini-breakbeats fly across open space like strobe-lit ping-pong balls. Each trick is as impressive.
Sampha’s vocals are striking, frequently courting the edge of tears – especially on Hold On where he pleads, "You’re giving me the coldest stare / Like you don’t even know I’m here". And so it continues, with other such imagery, of "ghostly enemies" on Trials of the Past and breaking down the blockade of "Pharoah’s guards, Kings and Queens" on Pharoahs, featuring the blindingly impermeable vocals of Roses Gabor. On Right Thing to Do, Jessie Ware comes through even stronger than the twisted bass and thumping 808s, mournfully purring "Let me eat all these lies up / Let me hide, let me hide them". It’s simple heartbreak, unusually matched with such an upbeat arrangement.
But as the pace drops and the cycle restarts, sobriety creeps back in. This album is paced like a perfect DJ set – it reads the listener with incredible insight, combining the immediate and familiar with intense passages of warm-up, breaking to allow for moments of blank space and reflection. The mix of shiny vocals with tight, accelerated textures is steeped deep in a glorious combination of two-step, UK funky, dubstep, US RnB and Chicago house. Add that to the compendium of a killer pop sensibility, infectious bubbling rhythms, unbridled energy and astounding curation from the man in the mask, and what we have here is the promise of this decade’s Timbaland.
album is brilliant, just discovered him to be honest
and
big up Bloodstream !
Re: SBTRKT's album, free stream
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 1:52 am
by ChrisFizik
super impressive. the full stream is a treat too. Between this and Silkie's album next week, gonna be in for some serious deep/epic/classic listening.
Re: SBTRKT's album, free stream
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 6:33 pm
by Bloodstream
polzyx wrote:album is brilliant, just discovered him to be honest
and
big up Bloodstream !
Re: SBTRKT's album, free stream
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 1:00 am
by PEDRO 123
album of the year IMO. every single tune is solid
Re: SBTRKT's album, free stream
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 11:01 am
by Mr Hyde
This album is going nicely with my Saturday morning
Re: SBTRKT's album, free stream
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 3:55 pm
by Juice Terry
This album is quality; Hold On and Trials of the Past are personal favourites.
Saw the live show on Thursday and it was ridiculously good, Sampha's voice is amazing and SBTRKT is a total loon on the drums, he seemed to be drumming and triggering synths with his sticks at the same time. I think you can get the show on iTunes, well worth checking it out. I've got a couple of videos, will upload them at some point and drop the links here.
A couple of questions though if anyone can help:
I thought it was just one guy, but it was him and Sampha and they both said 'We're SBTRKT' quite a few times.
Also, if anyone has any more ideas about the equipment he uses I'd definitely be interested.
Re: SBTRKT's album, free stream
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 3:58 pm
by Juice Terry
Also, if anyone hasn't heard it you should check out his remix of Radiohead - Right Place. It's on YouTube, would post a link but on my mobile at the minute.