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pinch & shackleton - pinch & shackleton - honest jons records - cd

Genre: Bass

1. Cracks In The Pleasuredome
2. Jellybones
3. Torn And Submerged
4. Rooms Within A Room
5. Selfish Greedy Life
6. Burning Blood
7. Levitation
8. Monks On The Rum
9. Boracay Drift

The two dubstep pioneers at the top of their game. The deadly concision, the rhythmic punch and dramatic timing, the spry, side-to-side detailing of a cavernous stage, the crisp-biscuit vocal sampling and Middle Eastern percussion — their sound signatures are not so much totalled as squared. Truly an album, the music is multi-levelled — dark as anything at times, but engrossingly varied and emotionally shaded, always on the move. Tip!

For The Wire this month, in a full-page review — 'a labyrinthine collaboration that rebuilds the dialectics of dubstep... a beguilingly well-delivered statement in a dialect that was sidelined in favour of the cult of bass or the fluorescent synths. A powerful retort to the comparatively crude hyperactivity of the post-dubstep landscape and a well-timed lesson in sophistication.'