Angular and edgy, this music is inescapably urban. Dubstep is the unromanticised sound of the inner cities. Apparently drawing on the complete history of electronic music, Scuba produces a harder, cleaner sound than say, Burial. Fractured, kaleidoscopic and twitchy, this is the sound of the internet after everyone has gone to sleepRead more »
….And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness represents an extraordinary leap forward from the potential of earlier works by Olafur Arnalds, which threatened at times to collapse under the weight of the melancholia dominating the emotional range, particularly in last years ‘Found Songs’. A broader musical palette, even introducing drums to the mix,...
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