amen andrews vs. spac hand luke (luke vibert)

Amen Andrews Vs Spac Hand Luke

Blessed with more pseudonyms than the Jackal, Luke Vibert is one of the few artists who could legitimately draught in two of his alter-egos and force them into a collaborative unison - with Amen Andrews vs. Spac Hand Luke the ungodly marriage. Split down the middle, each half of Vibert's psyche gets a good run out - with the opening assault of 'London' a tooth-rotting confection of Spac Hand Luke mentalism that errs well on the side of mutilated R&B. Industrial without becoming ear-bleed, Vibert has mastered the fine balancing act between all-out aural assaults and nuanced production techniques - resulting in a style that evokes Soundmurderer, Remarc and Dillinja, but keeps you engaged well beyond an adrenaline sugar-rush. Cracking on with the generator bass and frantic d&b stylings of 'I Shot Killer Pussy', Vibert hands over the controls to Andrews as we're splattered with samples and smashed-glass rhythms that range from the utterly splenetic ('Screwface') through to the hardcore lurch of 'Barrave'. Pumping out more ideas and sounds per minute than many of his peers manage in a career, at no point during the thirteen tracks on display do you feel as if Vibert is making noise for the sake of it - as the cluttered compositions collide and part to form new diktats well beyond the sum of their parts. With particular highlights coming in the form of 'Grave' and its reedy high-end, 'Jungalism's break-flecked breathlessness and the closing salvo of 'Murder' (a whole life-sentence of acid pickled goodness), Amen Andrews vs. Spac Hand Luke is an argument worth getting involved with. Halleluiah!