Icelandic grime crew sideproject, last seen helping out Björk with beat programming on 2022's 'Fossora', back with a more complex lattice on their SVBKVLT debut, wrinkling UK bass rhythms with bolshy club seasonings. RIYL Rhyw, Metrist, Blawan, Objekt.
Taking on grime and UK soundsystem music from a distance isn't an easy task, and Atli Finnsson, Hjálmar Karlsson and Örlygur Steinar Arnalds smartly don't even try to copy pored-over blueprints, instead mining a worldly memorybank of parallel club futures. There's the unmistakable tick of day-zero Eski on 'vasulka (basúkka mix)', but sideproject slice into the template, interrupting the well-worn siren calls and square wave knocks with disordered DSP flurries and heaving, sidechained synths. Similarly, you can squint at the steppers' flux of 'wet cement' and just about make out dubstep, but the Icelandic trio have recast it with different materials, taking inspiration from Autechre's mid-period rap hybrids and circling the form without stepping into the circle.
With granulated woodwind squawks and rattly, digitally-mangled percussion, 'sospir' sounds closer to recent gear from 3Phaz or Deena Abdelwahed, while the trance-y, distorted 'weight' veers towards De Grandi's unstable deconstructions. sideproject shuffle all these ideas into their arsenal like they're playing Texas Hold-Em, once a track's over, they're onto the next hand, tweezing riddim and EDM vacillations into 'Confield' splatter on 'fluttertongue' and winding algorave stutters, Aïsha Devi-style robo-shamanic voices and 'Gunman' chimes through the burnt-out remnants of speed dembow on 'swamp merchant'. It's the kinda card sharking we can wholeheartedly endorse.
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Icelandic grime crew sideproject, last seen helping out Björk with beat programming on 2022's 'Fossora', back with a more complex lattice on their SVBKVLT debut, wrinkling UK bass rhythms with bolshy club seasonings. RIYL Rhyw, Metrist, Blawan, Objekt.
Taking on grime and UK soundsystem music from a distance isn't an easy task, and Atli Finnsson, Hjálmar Karlsson and Örlygur Steinar Arnalds smartly don't even try to copy pored-over blueprints, instead mining a worldly memorybank of parallel club futures. There's the unmistakable tick of day-zero Eski on 'vasulka (basúkka mix)', but sideproject slice into the template, interrupting the well-worn siren calls and square wave knocks with disordered DSP flurries and heaving, sidechained synths. Similarly, you can squint at the steppers' flux of 'wet cement' and just about make out dubstep, but the Icelandic trio have recast it with different materials, taking inspiration from Autechre's mid-period rap hybrids and circling the form without stepping into the circle.
With granulated woodwind squawks and rattly, digitally-mangled percussion, 'sospir' sounds closer to recent gear from 3Phaz or Deena Abdelwahed, while the trance-y, distorted 'weight' veers towards De Grandi's unstable deconstructions. sideproject shuffle all these ideas into their arsenal like they're playing Texas Hold-Em, once a track's over, they're onto the next hand, tweezing riddim and EDM vacillations into 'Confield' splatter on 'fluttertongue' and winding algorave stutters, Aïsha Devi-style robo-shamanic voices and 'Gunman' chimes through the burnt-out remnants of speed dembow on 'swamp merchant'. It's the kinda card sharking we can wholeheartedly endorse.
Icelandic grime crew sideproject, last seen helping out Björk with beat programming on 2022's 'Fossora', back with a more complex lattice on their SVBKVLT debut, wrinkling UK bass rhythms with bolshy club seasonings. RIYL Rhyw, Metrist, Blawan, Objekt.
Taking on grime and UK soundsystem music from a distance isn't an easy task, and Atli Finnsson, Hjálmar Karlsson and Örlygur Steinar Arnalds smartly don't even try to copy pored-over blueprints, instead mining a worldly memorybank of parallel club futures. There's the unmistakable tick of day-zero Eski on 'vasulka (basúkka mix)', but sideproject slice into the template, interrupting the well-worn siren calls and square wave knocks with disordered DSP flurries and heaving, sidechained synths. Similarly, you can squint at the steppers' flux of 'wet cement' and just about make out dubstep, but the Icelandic trio have recast it with different materials, taking inspiration from Autechre's mid-period rap hybrids and circling the form without stepping into the circle.
With granulated woodwind squawks and rattly, digitally-mangled percussion, 'sospir' sounds closer to recent gear from 3Phaz or Deena Abdelwahed, while the trance-y, distorted 'weight' veers towards De Grandi's unstable deconstructions. sideproject shuffle all these ideas into their arsenal like they're playing Texas Hold-Em, once a track's over, they're onto the next hand, tweezing riddim and EDM vacillations into 'Confield' splatter on 'fluttertongue' and winding algorave stutters, Aïsha Devi-style robo-shamanic voices and 'Gunman' chimes through the burnt-out remnants of speed dembow on 'swamp merchant'. It's the kinda card sharking we can wholeheartedly endorse.
Icelandic grime crew sideproject, last seen helping out Björk with beat programming on 2022's 'Fossora', back with a more complex lattice on their SVBKVLT debut, wrinkling UK bass rhythms with bolshy club seasonings. RIYL Rhyw, Metrist, Blawan, Objekt.
Taking on grime and UK soundsystem music from a distance isn't an easy task, and Atli Finnsson, Hjálmar Karlsson and Örlygur Steinar Arnalds smartly don't even try to copy pored-over blueprints, instead mining a worldly memorybank of parallel club futures. There's the unmistakable tick of day-zero Eski on 'vasulka (basúkka mix)', but sideproject slice into the template, interrupting the well-worn siren calls and square wave knocks with disordered DSP flurries and heaving, sidechained synths. Similarly, you can squint at the steppers' flux of 'wet cement' and just about make out dubstep, but the Icelandic trio have recast it with different materials, taking inspiration from Autechre's mid-period rap hybrids and circling the form without stepping into the circle.
With granulated woodwind squawks and rattly, digitally-mangled percussion, 'sospir' sounds closer to recent gear from 3Phaz or Deena Abdelwahed, while the trance-y, distorted 'weight' veers towards De Grandi's unstable deconstructions. sideproject shuffle all these ideas into their arsenal like they're playing Texas Hold-Em, once a track's over, they're onto the next hand, tweezing riddim and EDM vacillations into 'Confield' splatter on 'fluttertongue' and winding algorave stutters, Aïsha Devi-style robo-shamanic voices and 'Gunman' chimes through the burnt-out remnants of speed dembow on 'swamp merchant'. It's the kinda card sharking we can wholeheartedly endorse.
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Icelandic grime crew sideproject, last seen helping out Björk with beat programming on 2022's 'Fossora', back with a more complex lattice on their SVBKVLT debut, wrinkling UK bass rhythms with bolshy club seasonings. RIYL Rhyw, Metrist, Blawan, Objekt.
Taking on grime and UK soundsystem music from a distance isn't an easy task, and Atli Finnsson, Hjálmar Karlsson and Örlygur Steinar Arnalds smartly don't even try to copy pored-over blueprints, instead mining a worldly memorybank of parallel club futures. There's the unmistakable tick of day-zero Eski on 'vasulka (basúkka mix)', but sideproject slice into the template, interrupting the well-worn siren calls and square wave knocks with disordered DSP flurries and heaving, sidechained synths. Similarly, you can squint at the steppers' flux of 'wet cement' and just about make out dubstep, but the Icelandic trio have recast it with different materials, taking inspiration from Autechre's mid-period rap hybrids and circling the form without stepping into the circle.
With granulated woodwind squawks and rattly, digitally-mangled percussion, 'sospir' sounds closer to recent gear from 3Phaz or Deena Abdelwahed, while the trance-y, distorted 'weight' veers towards De Grandi's unstable deconstructions. sideproject shuffle all these ideas into their arsenal like they're playing Texas Hold-Em, once a track's over, they're onto the next hand, tweezing riddim and EDM vacillations into 'Confield' splatter on 'fluttertongue' and winding algorave stutters, Aïsha Devi-style robo-shamanic voices and 'Gunman' chimes through the burnt-out remnants of speed dembow on 'swamp merchant'. It's the kinda card sharking we can wholeheartedly endorse.