Overlook - False

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  • Bournemouth's Overlook is a fresh-faced drum & bass producer whose taste for the epic and the ethereal matches Narratives Music's musical ethos (he also contributed one of their best tracks yet with last year's "Three Shards"). He now gets his first solo turn on the growing label, showing off his introspective and extroverted sides over two prime efforts. With its steady heartbeat, "Everything Counts" is almost zen, but don't let that fool you. Tectonic bass clouds blot out the entire lower half of the frequency spectrum and Luxton loads up the spacious template with synth squiggles and tensely scurrying toms, all on top of a beat that ping-pongs back and forth like it were biding its time before some big climax (there isn't one). "False" sounds like a firebomb by comparison—imagine a storming drumfunk track set to the atmospherics of Burial's "South London Boroughs." The percussion is far from the jazzy fare you usually hear on these kinds of choppage workouts, and that's a good thing. Instead, the drums could've been taken from a post-rock record, booming along with the immense synths that light up the backdrop. Narratives 12-inches rarely sound less than huge, and number seven is just as gargantuan.
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      A False B Everything Counts
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