Every once in a while I’ll hear a song by a band I know nothing about that will absolutely capture me. Earlier this year, that song was Murmurs by Hundred Waters, a long-burn, glistening, hypnotic piece of electronic atmospheres meticulously crafted by aural architects.
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Record #224: James Blake – James Blake (2011)
It is my understanding that the term “dubstep” means different things depending on what side of the Atlantic you’re on. Stateside, it means the sort of bro-friendly, attention deficient, robot-sex music that’s made its way into car commercials and cheap summer movie soundtracks. In Britian, however, dubstep is a little more subtle–shifting textures over time, setting grooves and resting in them, forming a subset of electronic music much more suited for a late night drive than a trailer for the new Transformers movie.