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Luke Abbott - Holkham Drones
Released: 23/08/2010
Border Community
Keeping it real regional, Luke Abbott’s debut refers to a stretch of Norfolk coastline and generates frequencies that evoke offshore floatiness. His psychedelic electronica has a Krautrock pulse, and is infused with a sense of euphoria similar to that which Caribou and Four Tet have recently become exponents of.
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NME“Nature and technology work in harmony for Norwich’s Luke Abbott...” Krautrock sheens shift time signatures underneath ping-pong beats cascading and bouncing off of each other – often into abrupt endings that make each track feel like a glimpsed snapshot beamed in from Abbott’s mad treehouse...
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The Independent“Things are developing at their own pace...” Not all the electronic-music activity in Britain is happening just within the stylish urban parameters of dubstep...
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MusicOMH“Listening to it is like entering a lucid dream...” Abbott is certainly interested in the effects of repetition and these irresistible drones are refreshing and imaginative rather than ugly, mechanistic or harsh. This is a prime example in how to make machine music sound warm and human...
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Drowned In Sound“A game–changing electronic opus...” Holkham Drones should stand side-by-side with the masterpieces that Kieran Hebden and Dan Snaith have put out this year; and to think that this is Abbott’s debut makes the journeys we may take alongside him all the more thrilling...
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