Much like Jenkinson’s home of Essex, his new album is cold, dark, uninviting, difficult and easily misunderstood
Part of the problem is tempo. Moments of Ufabulum, particularly the middle stretch, are all but impossible for me to remember after a dozen plays.
This is Squarepusher with the best equipment money can buy, pumping his tracks mercilessly until they’re all surface and no substance.
Whilst undoubtedly, and commendably, experimental, very few tracks on Ufabulum hit their mark.
This came out at the peak of "Brostep" with skrillex leading the gang. And i'm ashamed to say i assumed for way too long i knew what this album and artist was. I’m glad i was wrong
While it flirts with this era of dubstep, with extreme compression and sidechaining at parodic levels, we also get stuff that is just pure euphoric IDM. The second half especially is just NASTY good.
And one thing i want to point out is that this is completely 100% analogue. Which is so fucking ... read more
He watched that film about clones and got sad
If it was watch, then it would be named "Sckrollex Geks 10"
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