Aerial - 2562

Aerial

2562 [Tectonic]

#06 in this month's The 20

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The Bristol based label Tectonic offers up a grimy slab of new dubstep with 2562’s ‘Arial,’ which combines well received tracks released as EPs in 2007 with new work from Dave Huismans, who’s also known as Dogdaze and A Made Up Sound.

The album kicks off with the sparse ‘Redux’, which places delayed snare hits and static at the forefront of the mix and makes for a leisurely opener.

‘Techno Dread’ develops the dark side of ‘Arial’ and features a minor sounding, stripped down drop that leads to a dissonant synth break, over which the groove is gradually reconstructed.

After ‘Techno Dread’, 2562 explores more relaxed territory in tracks like ‘Basin Dub’ and ‘Greyscale’, which combine dubstep grooves with field recordings and chilled out melodies.

The album as a whole ricochets between these two contrasting moods, and the track ‘Kameleon’ is a strange fusion of both of them: reverberating metal and upbeat percussion smothered in delay combine to create a catchy slice of emotional ambivalence.

‘Arial’ gets a lot of mileage out of trademark dubstep sounds, and though this might make the record seem formulaic at first listen, it also gives the album a refreshing cohesiveness as a body of work.

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