Soreab - Perspectives

  • Woozy and wonky broken beats.
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  • Brighton is a transient place: people come to visit its beach, enjoy the sea air and then leave. Accidental Meetings, a club night turned label, embraces this aspect of its hometown through nights and releases that present an equally fluid take on dance music. Take their last vinyl release, by Angel Rocket, where songs like "Oyster Perpetual" had glimmers of dembow and jungle, and where many of the tracks are as danceable at 33 ⅓ RPM as they are at 45. London-based Italian producer Soreab fits right into this idea, toying with different styles by giving them a dark, psychedelic twist where nothing is quite as it seems. Dembow and dancehall are usually upbeat genres, but the breezy subs and eerie effects of "Drunken Ballad" give the rhythms a haunted feel. If you were to strip "Done Everything" of Soreab's instrumentals and leave it with the guest vocals of North London MC Logan, it would sound like a straightforward ode to a night out. Instead, Soreab bolsters the kick drums with a mammoth sub pulse and adds a synth that ticks like a doomsday clock, turning Logan's verses into something like a call to arms. Tempo changes between songs also help with the EP's ambiguous nature. After the raucous "Done Everything," we're sucked into the syrupy wormhole of "The Sphere" until "Maranza Percussion Ensemble" lifts the pace with its light-footed radar bleep. On Perspectives, Soreab proves he can make murky music sound playful and vice versa—perfectly in-between like the label it lands on.
  • Tracklist
      01. Drunken Ballad 02. Maranza Percussion Ensemble 03. Done Everything feat. Logan 04. The Sphere
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