Sockethead

Yas

Genre: ELECTRONIC

LP (Black Vinyl)

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Pivotal mcr outlier Sockethead follows strong collabs with Michael J Blood and Rat Heart on arguably his deadliest, most locked-in album of scuzzed-not-fuzzed Detroit-influenced modalities, produced in Athens and sounding something like Urban Tribe and Actress soundtracking a cruise thru the city at night.

Feeling the moxie of a man used to grey Manc skies and smitten by Athens’ neon lights and sights, Sockethead delivers some of his finest material thus far on ‘Yas’, deploying an abundance of weirdo textures, space, and spirits on a typically crooked take on deep-rooted and wavey technoid inspirations with a DIY approach.

Notably shorn of the yowling, MES-y vocals found on his standout debut ‘Harj-o-Marj’, for YOUTH, Yas is nevertheless full of expressive leads and itchy rhythms that carry his signature style. We can hear him conveying the dry heat of Athens thru the circuits of pensive opener ‘The Prowler’ which crosses an 80s, Carpenter-esque slasher movie vibe with levitational Drexciyan synths, and on the pulsating, vibrating mass of ‘Temporary Atmosphere’.

The rest of the album patently indulges a passion for Motor City vapours between the pitch-bent melodies and whirring broken beats of ‘Other Side of Chaos (Guilt Mix)’, to an Actress style stepper ‘Cats On The Island’, and most explicitly on the kaotic, swarming harmonies of ‘Untitled ATM’ and the thrumming Juan Atkins adoration ‘The Ecstatic’.

It’s all supremely atmospheric, smoked-out and engrossing stuff, hugely recommended to anyone signed up for anything on the MJB x Ratty axis, or the deepest late night jams.

LP (Black Vinyl) (8)

Limited edition, includes a download of the album dropped to your account. Additional production, keyboards and effects by Duster Valentine. Artwork by Richard Harris aka Sockethead.

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It’s all supremely atmospheric, smoked-out and engrossing stuff, hugely recommended to anyone signed up for anything on the MJB x Ratty axis, or the deepest late night jams.