dabbling in dubstep

Inspired somewhat by my own article, I started relistening to a lot of my old forgotten favorite dubstep EP's and albums again. You might well own many of these already if you're into dubstep because to be quite honest, they're pretty "entry level". By no means does this imply that they're bad at all, it's just that they may not be anything new to you.

So allow me to start off with a tasty bit of the producer known as Burial. His second studio album, "Untrue" was a masterpiece of 07, the streets of modern day london personified and recreated sonically with the echoey 2 step beats now synonymous with Burial alongside ambient synths that manage to give the music a huge atmosphere, only within a box. This box isn't preventing the creativity of the album, but rather keeping the sound in and reverberating everything back in on itself to form a beautiful mesh of melodies. It's not all smiles and echoes however, within this album it feels as though there is something ominous, something not quite right. The vocals, dressed up to sound dreamy give off a feel of eeriness amidst the soft crush of sound. This shows most notably in the song "Etched headplate", opening with what sounds like a London mother explaining that her child (possibly one who has committed some sort of crime) has "a lot of love in him" just before the song erupts with shuffled beats that hit hard.
More of these squeaky yet defined vocals continue and really give the album another dimension and by the time we hear the albums closer "raver" it's hard to come away from the experience anything less than in awe.
People say that electronic music can never have the heart or sole in the same way that more organic genres can posses, this album just proves that you don't need twinkling guitars or sweeping strings to tickle your emotions. Trust me, it's something special.

Download this right now! HERE!
Stay tuned for more posts regarding yet more dubstep.