SubtractiveLAD
Life At The End Of The World

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With six genre-defying and emotionally arresting full-lengths in as many years, Stephen Hummel (aka SubtractiveLAD) has established himself as n5MD’s “flagship” artist and the embodiment of its “emotionally experimental” ethos. Combining the warmth and warble of classic analogue hardware, a vast cache of original instruments and plug-ins and an improvisatory compositional freedom gained from over a decade in jazz, SubtractiveLAD creates a sound both cathartic and escapist, highly personal yet universally accessible, with an emotional depth rarely heard in the often cold, cerebral world of “armchair electronica.” In the beginning, it was impossible to predict SubtractiveLAD's musical evolution. It was as if his first album 'Giving Up The Ghost' was the initial splash from a pebble thrown into a pond and each subsequent album a ripple which grew broader in scope, became less disruptive and more meditative. They have all had one key aspect in that Hummel has always been genuine in the projection of emotions in his music. On ‘Life At The End Of The World’, Hummel's sixth album, percussive elements, pretense of genre, and theoretical pollutants that could cloud the candid nature of this current ripple in his pond are a thing of the past. The result is one of SubtractiveLad's most lush yet threadbare albums to date. Recorded very shorty after the birth of his son, this is an album nestled somewhere between classic artists of the genre such as Eno and Namlook and more modern electro-acoustic artists such as Simon Scott and Jasper TX. Whatever does lie at the end of his world, this album is its creator’s catharsis, anxiety, and joy. SubtractiveLAD has created his largest most majestic ripple yet.