Ahead of his mammoth tour starting
tomorrow, the masked dance master that’s captured the imaginations of the
mainstream Aaron Jerome aka SBTRKT has launched new track Terminal out across
the internet today. After a series of releases including last year’s huge
self-titled record; which made our top 10 albums of 2011.
Listening to this new track however signals
something of a step away from this, however. With the kind of sound you’d
expect to fill a DJ set rather than the kind of shows SBTRKT pulls off with the
likes of Sampha live it’s not so much a curveball as a floor filling, ostinato
heavy SBTRKT half-way house.
Everything we’ve come to know as trademark
for Jerome is there, the pulsing bass line, the like for sparcity and insanity
at the same time and the want to be commercially acceptable without pushing too
hard for pop. Counting in at under three minutes however, it’s more of a
sampler for future beats than it is a ready-to-go release though so for now,
that’s our appetite whet.
Braden Fletcher
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