Al Tourettes - Swan Sketch

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  • Al Tourettes' biggest two releases to date have come alongside his much more established Bristol brethren, Appleblim. Given the ground he covers on this new EP for Baselogic, you begin to wonder why he needed 'Blim at all. Swan Sketch is informed by an embarrassment of scenes and sounds. The dazzling cuts are awash with cues from all over—skittish dubstep percussion, grumbling techno sub-bass and shiny, highly reflective IDM squiggles dart across the surfaces of all four tracks. The titular effort is dense and kinetic, with lowdown and subdued melodies just about balancing out the frantic intergalactic battle going on up top. Your point of focus is constantly changing whereas the brutalist "Universed" has you firmly locked onto its diving bass notes: they plunge downwards every bar, while snares, icy pads and glassy lines all circle like electrons round their atom. "Badger" has serious attitude: the wood block hits are enough in themselves to get you dropping a shoulder. As a muffled bassline grows and growls, though, so does your propensity to dance like a loon in its twisted, sinewy, slippery presence: think Radioactive Man and you'd be in the right galaxy. Finally, Datasette turns in a ready-made end-of-the-night gem with his reticent, star gazing remix of "Swan Sketch," but the originals here really take some beating… Warp, are you listening?
  • Tracklist
      A1 Swan Sketch A2 Universed B1 Badger B2 Swan Sketch (Datasette Remix)
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