Deadboy - Here EP

Deadboy’s own brand of garage flecked melancholia rocketed out of the stables on the single sided ‘If U Want Me,’ the first release on Numbers in early 2010, and the Brighton based producer hasn’t let up since. Inspired as much by glam R&B as he is UK garage and dancehall, Deadboy returns to Numbers with this three track EP that veers ably from his own brand of stylistic, woozy dancefloor heartache to deep gilded disco on the eight-minute-plus opener ‘Wish U Were Here.’ Still chopping vocals and twisting them into his gloriously bittersweet fragmented shapes, this finds him playing with his evolutions, suitably adding and subtracting elements, through lush breakdowns, to keep the stomping pace at a constant whilst his bassline bubbles up and down the octaves. ‘Here 4 U’ is built around a solid but broken house groove that’s peppered with a purely London snare pattern. With his now trademarked sample play flanked by the snatches of rolling conga lines and hyperactive bass pulses, Deadboy unleashes one of his super long chords to devastating effect. Finally, with ‘Ain’t Gonna Lie’ he really harnesses the power and melody of the vocal hook. Something he’s continually threatened to do, he takes the vocal line to dizzy heights, pairing it simply with stuttered kick drums, warm, charm oozing chords and ping pong percussion.

Tracklisting:

A1. Wish U Were Here   B1. Here 4 U   B2. Ain't Gonna Lie

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