From Barcelona, Spain
Recommend if you like Space Afrika, Shackleton, Purelink
Up next Swerved out now<\/p>\n
Swerved, by Barcelona-based producer Nueen (Nacho Pezzati) is a bassy, moody, darkly ambient album that travels through R&B, drill, cloud rap and dub without any obvious changes in its grey-black weather. But this is slowly churning music, on the brink of rot. By the 10th track, Copicat, the unease is tangible; after a slow, agonising ratcheting build of fanbelt hi-hats, the album\u2019s only drop arrives with the weight and power of a cloudburst. It\u2019s thrilling.<\/p>\n
Swerved follows Nueen\u2019s 2024 Hyperdub debut You Said You\u2019d Hold My Hand Through the Fire<\/a> with rapper Iceboy Violet, and fans of the north-west underground<\/a> will recognise many of its themes. On Atmosphere Is My Style, a drawling Loraine James touches on the dislocation and confusion heard in Rainy Miller\u2019s music. Two tracks featuring Manchester\u2019s RenzNiro hit swaggering and confessional notes, similar to his recent album No Weapon Shall Prosper, and Swerved as a whole feels bathed in the humid ambience of Space Afrika. Nueen synthesises all these approaches, and takes stock, before breaking new ground.<\/p>\n The paths he heads down are guided by impressive vocal features. Cloud rapper XzavierStone pulls the sound in an Auto-Tune R&B direction on two tracks, and Baltimore singer Dawuna moans through the hot\u2019n\u2019heavy highlight Shm, which sounds like a lost D\u2019Angelo joint. (Check out the latter\u2019s Bandcamp-only African Family Laptop Musick<\/a> for more.) Nueen breaks into new territories for an established sound without disrupting an album\u2019s subtle cycles: through heating, simmering, and cooling. Hugh Morris<\/p>\n This week\u2019s best new tracksCandid \u2026\u00a0Ceebo (right) and Blanco. Photograph: Finn Harney<\/p>\n Ceebo x Blanco \u2013 Gets Like Dat Kali Malone \u2013 Heavy With Fruit Kiko Mizuhara \u2013 Feelin\u2019 Wee Corto.alto \u2013 Noblehill (ft Jacob Alon) Diiv \u2013 Kid Piss \u2013 Time Loop at Hot Slit Silvan Strauss \u2013 That\u2019s Who?!? (Fast Barista) Subscribe to the Guardian\u2019s rolling Add to Playlist selections on Spotify \u2013 or transfer it to Apple<\/a>, Tidal<\/a> or other services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Barcelona, SpainRecommend if you like Space Afrika, Shackleton, PurelinkUp next Swerved out now Swerved, by Barcelona-based producer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":["post-605576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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