Lockyear - Store Street / Katabatic Wind

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  • Aggborough's swooning midnight confessional, "Modal," put OTB Records squarely on my ones-to-watch list last year. Backed by the equally evocative "Bats," which took smouldering techno to another level, the record had me anxious for what was next. Thankfully, Kitten Play, by Aggborough's partner in crime, One Track Brain, didn't disappoint. The two have been tag-teaming like this for the last five OTB releases, and now they've handed the reins over to young Lockyear for the first bomb of 2016. "Store Street" is a nod to Manchester's carpark venue of the same name, best known as the home of The Warehouse Project—and those long nights of sweaty revelry inform Lockyear's opening swing. Tribal repetition has always been a bit of a Mancunian trait, and "Store Street" is buzzing with such rattles, ticks and woodblock hits. It's pretty ravey, one-for-the-lads with that "mate" sample reverberating through the polyrhythms. Proper "Manchestah," indeed. "Katabatic Wind," then, is the afterparty cure and a far more mellow affair. Warm undulations sooth and caress, while gentle beats keep things plodding along lazily. It's the finishing touch on Lockyear's rather stonking debut.
  • Tracklist
      A Store Street B Katabatic Wind
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