Title: Flex Time
Artist: 96 Back
Label: Local Action
Cat Number: LOC069
Genre: Future Abstract Beats
1: Coup de Grace feat. Cadence Weapon
2: Tired Angel
3: Note To Self
4: Plucks
5: Y I’m Here feat. Iceboy Violet
A game of two halves this. The vocal tracks are beat led and feature a rap from Cadence Weapon, and Iceboy Violet. Both of them slightly left field, with the latter a little more woozy and wayward than the former. ‘Plucks’ keeps the beats in the foreground and is an interesting amalgamation of hip hop tropes and the outer limits of frictional rave. Both ‘Tired Angel’ and ‘Note To Self’ feel like portals into another era. Using symphonic hauntology they depart from the present and dwindle into a parallel world which somehow doesn’t feel out of place set against the tougher, more self-perpetuating sound ecosystem occupied by the other compositions. There is plenty to occupy the imagination here, chief amongst which is trying to articulate it.
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