Shriekin - Red Beach

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  • Jack Sheehan's debut, Gold And Featherwork, continued Local Action's long-running trend of clothing grime music in lavish, flowing fabrics. Now, after moving over to Bristol upstart Blacklink Sound, he sharpens his skills, wrapping barbed-wire basslines in satin and lace. His tracks as Shriekin tend to have an onyx-hard core surrounded by more delicate accoutrements. On "Red Beach" that means slamming bass against fine-china synths, borrowing a page from Slackk but making it more bottom-heavy and brutal than that producer usually gets. The theme on "Too Right" is video game nostalgia, and it's bright and orchestral like something that might have soundtracked a palatial setting. The chintzy strings and bleepy sounds are workaday devices in instrumental grime at this point, but Sheehan's percussive thrust is enough to hit them home. The remixes offer more distinctive takes on Sheehan's well-worn ideas. Slackk bashes "Too Right" into something hectic, spitting out terse string melodies and high-pitched squalls while the kick drums sound like they're slipping on icy surfaces. Australian rising star Strict Face comes in with a "Starfall Edition" of "Red Beach," and he turns it into something of a lullaby. Strapping the melody to a barely-there beat that only connects at critical moments, it's full of subtle tension and detail, underlining his increasingly mature sense of control. Both reworks round out Red Beach into a solid package.
  • Tracklist
      A1 Red Beach A2 Too Right B1 Red Beach (Strict Face's 'Starfall' Edition) B2 Too Right (Slackk Remix)
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