Falty DL - Bravery

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4...according to our Brian on Thu 08 Oct, 2009.

Listening to the new Falty DL promo we've got is initially a disorientating exercise. The first track 'Made Me Feel So Right' has a proper fucked-up beat that sounds like a skipping CD player and loads of warped Burial style atmospherics lurking beneath. It is not exactly a club banger, if you tried to dance to this girls would laugh at you and you'd possibly get really depressed and think you've totally lost any sense of rhythm you ever had. There's some spot on blurred vocal snippets and eerie twinkles happening under the pissed garageisms though. 'Mother Beam' continues in that monged, staggered fashion with a sort of stripped back R 'n' B vibe, all cut-up and hazy but however, there's a really strong rhythm punching through. Things start getting even more twatted by the stunning title track, 'Bravery' - all bloopy synths, echo-ey vocal snippets, dreamy keys and at almost 2 minutes in it turns into a euphoric druggy disco blurter like FlyLo falling down some stairs after a bottle of Absinthe. Fucking A! There's loads more top ranking twisted material & progressive beatery on here, like the jazzy and eerie 'Tronman' with it's ominous, pulsing waves and funky percussive onslaught, a proper trippy beauty. If you like the LP he did you need this - more screwed up and thought provoking, plus the grooves 'n' myriad sonic trickery are well evocative & proper rinsin' like - i'd like to take this EP home and cuddle up with it some more, all those mad-ass spaced synths....ooh missus.

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Following on from his great June debut album ‘Love is a Liability’, Falty DL, aka New York’s Drew Lustman weighs in as a heavyweight talent with this incredible new mini LP.

9/10 REVIEW IN DJ: "A WIDESCREEN, HYBRIDISED PALATE OF 2-STEP, DUBSTEP AND ELECTRONICA WITH A HINT OF YESTER-YEAR REVERENCE. CHECK ‘MOTHER BEAM’ FOR FALTERING HIP HOP, PEEL YOUR EARS FOR THE AXELROD NOTES ON ‘PLAY CHILD’, AND WALK AMONG THE GIANTS OF OF AYRES AND HANCOCK ON ‘DISTANT’. BUT THE TRUE GENIUS LIES IN ‘TRONMAN’, ‘MUST SUSTAIN’ AND ‘MADE ME FEEL SO RIGHT’ ...THREE EXAMPLES OF THE MOST BEAUTIFULLY DISCORDANT, DECAYING POST-BURIAL BLUES."

ATM: "PERFECT FOR THE POST-BURIAL BLUES. ALBUM OF THE YEAR? QUITE POSSIBLY."

‘Bravery’ contrasts quite dramatically with his debut, especially since these eight tracks are brand new, recorded as recently as three months ago. The album works at different tempos but still impresses with Falty DL’s featherweight
combinations of melodic synths, glitzy garage samples and complex programmed beats and effects.

From the first track ‘Made me feel so right’ as a brash, repeated garage vocal echoes over delicate, plaintive synths and string instrumentation, you know you ’re in store for something good. Next up ‘Mother Beam’ opens up with hiccupped vocals, big bass and jazzy chords, into layered hip hop speed drums. By ‘Tronman’, things are beginning to get much more abstract; melodies hang mid-air while drums form into patterns underneath, the whole track feels weightless.

Just as you’re beginning to feel lost in space, the music picks up with the chicken scratch guitar and dubbed out vocals of the up-tempo ‘Pressure’ which breaks into a complex workout of drums and bass. The album finishes with the acid and Rhodes of ‘Discant’, which layers sassy disco orchestration into the mix to dizzying effect.

2LP: A MADE ME FEEL SO RIGHT MOTHER BEAM B BRAVERY PLAY CHILD C TRONMAN MUST SUSTAIN D PRESSURE DISCANT

CD: 1 MADE ME FEEL SO RIGHT 2 MOTHER BEAM 3 BRAVERY 4 PLAY CHILD 5 TRONMAN 6 MUST SUSTAIN 7 PRESSURE 8 DISCANT

5...according to Josh.

Its just dope... I find myself returning to tracks on Bravery on the daily. I just rhymed.... Thats all.

Rating: 5 out of 5

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