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- Summary: This is the debut full-length release for grime producer Owen Darby.
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- Record Label: Keysound Recordings
- Genre(s): Electronic
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Mar 26, 2014It’s rare to find an electronic full length that manages to feel so varied, and yet also so harmonious in its uncompromising vision.
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Mar 26, 2014You can’t hear Signals without hearing modern London.
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Mar 26, 2014With Signals, Wen has nearly perfected the claustrophobic grime sound he started sketching in 2012.
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The WireJul 17, 2014Most intriguing are the hi-tech elements that flicker past, adding a hint of touch screen technology to the contemporary urban space. And the snatches of pirate radio speech--now Wen's signature--are engrossing. [May 2014, p.69]
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Mar 26, 2014There are moments of dynamism, like the excellent quivering steppers’ bassline in ‘Time’, or ‘In’’s disemboweled grime-pulse sounds. But even these tracks feel weighed down by a relentless paranoiac mood that soon begins to tire, their gestures sparse and restrained in a manner that’s presumably meant to be evocative, but often just feels unadventurous.
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Apr 28, 2016
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