Crewdson - Gravity

Slowfoot is delighted to announce the release of Gravity, the debut album from South East London's acclaimed producer Crewdson.

Following on from his much lauded "Dust EP", released in late 2010 (gathering along the way plaudits from The Fader, The Wire, Clash, Future Sequence, Electronic Beats etc) and a slew of engaging and playful live shows, Crewdson has been hailed as one to watch amongst his 'post dubstep' peers, "blowing Jazz and glitch into the vessels sails". An effortless blend of skewed electronics, Jazz inflected harmony and concrete Soul, Gravity shows the many layers of Hugh 'Crewdson' Jones in one tight, beautifully produced sonic adventure playground.

"Starting Out on the Wrong Foot" sets out his stall - choppy beats, stabbed chords and his trademark collage of treated percussion and found sound, "matching a knowledge of what works on the dancefloor with some skewed melodics". Your head keeps ringing into "Trapdoor", a sensual marriage of 2-step rhythms and his queasy Soul styled vocal manipulations. "Electric Wing" starts with the sound of live earth morphing into a throbbing bass line, topped with some experimental electronics, warped vocals and beautifully performed sax arrangements. More emotionally weighty material comes in the form of the dusky tones of "To A New Day", the beautiful midnight epic "Cascade" and the crack-of-dawn frenzy of "Full Force Shuffle".

What exactly is this music? So far descriptions have ranged from "fairytale electronics, bleeping its way through a snow-topped forest on horseback", "techno, beats, jazz, broken beats" and "something post-post-something the sound of a hundred cassette decks unspooling at once". The namechecks are much the same as we previously put to you for your ease: Flying Lotus, Polar Bear, Aphex Twin, Fourtet; plus contempories Mount Kimbie, James Blake of course Matthew Herbert for whom he currently works as technical assistant - all artists who share that vital need for pushing music forward as Crewdson demonstrates masterfully with this brilliant debut album.

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