Sully - Flock

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  • Sully has spent most of his career as a drifter, roving the rainswept A roads of the UK's hardcore continuum. Following 2011's Carrier LP, he dropped off the map, but reemerged years later with new focus. He remains fixated on the UK, but now it's one style in particular: jungle, rebooted to thrilling effect on last year's weighty double-EP, Blue. In a dance landscape peppered with repurposed Amens, Sully showed a particularly deft touch, combining the style's familiar elements with his own crystalline melodies. The Flock EP, which appears on Astrophonica instead of longtime home Keysound, continues in much the same way. It's extremely faithful to jungle's forms, but Sully somehow leaves his mark on every crispy breakbeat and palpitating dub bassline. Exuberant opener "Flock" might be the best of the lot, though "Helios," which pivots between romance and darkside paranoia, is up there. As the EP progresses, Sully's fingerprints become ever more visible, the melodies get washier, the mood more luxurious. "Crystal Cuts" features the kind of new age-y synths and lapping water FX you might find on a recent grime release. "Hours, Miles & Still..." is about as forlorn as its title suggests, though the breakbeats underneath are athletic as ever.
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      A1 Flock A2 Helios B1 Crystal Cuts B2 Hours, Miles & Still...
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