The Fear Ratio - Slinky (Tresor)

Skittering beats, glitchy scratchy nastiness, discernible Autechrean influences, and a couple of tracks with King Kashmere on rhyme duty. Bandcamp has only one track, Juno has clips. I'll wait until full release, but tentatively recommended.

I listened to their last one quite a bit when it came out and still listen to it occasionally even now. Good stuff.

Not sure about that cover art though. Hot pink doesn't exactly scream "Fear Ratio" to me.

Love this stuff, but wish was all instrumental. Definitely picking this one up though.

Nice, will look forward to this. I can handle 3 out of 12 tracks having vocals, the one on Bandcamp sounds good.

Great news, and yes the Kashmere track is dope! Would be good to have the collabo joints as bonus instrumentals for the purists.

  On 5/9/2022 at 9:43 AM, kichiguy said:

Would be good to have the collabo joints as bonus instrumentals for the purists.

Yeah, like with the Funckarma ones w/ Shadow Huntaz on Skam. They're brilliant.

Spinning Globe is heavy, good work. 

Wonder why it's not through SKAM. 

I loved they older stuff. Didn't gel much with They Can't Be Saved (great sound design but kinda... boring?) but the new single sounds fresh!!

Yeah, They Can't Be Saved didn't really work for me either. Light Box is a classic

I agree the last album is good but not as nuanced and attractive as Refuge Of A Twisted Soul is. Such a shame that without DJ Prime Cuts this time. He would be a better choice than a rap.
 
My advice is to be patient, coz we are probably waiting for some best tracks of The Fear Ratio. Otherwise you end up like me being addicted to some clips...

Meanwhile if you want to increase your appetite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZKBiWmyjUk

or if you really need to listen some fragments of new album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrBG9OaRl3c&t=280s

Enjoyed their stuff so will be checking out the new one. Don't mind if there is some MCing in the tracks.

Hyped, love the art, available track is dope. 

Not sure if everyone here knows about their Deadhand release from last year? Highly recommended if you're in this thread. 

https://seagrave.bandcamp.com/album/meanwhile-ft-dj-prime-cuts-sensational

Seagrave is a boss label, I was vaguely aware of this release then kinda forgot about it.... spinning now cheers

The beats and bass are sick on this single. Headbanging certified material. The vocals are cool too.

Out now.

kind of sounds like if Plaid and Autechre made an album together 

  On 6/24/2022 at 1:26 PM, Rubin Farr said:

kind of sounds like if Plaid and Autechre made an album together 

I am still holding out for an Autechre beatz album with guest vocals in a bunch of different trax.  

Busdriver, King Kashmere from this album, Ivorian Doll (female drill).... that album would be so dope.

  On 6/24/2022 at 1:26 PM, Rubin Farr said:

kind of sounds like if Plaid and Autechre made an album together 

30 minutes of video from a recent live set in Berlin

This is kinda like Autechre made a baby with Moderat and I like it 

  On 9/21/2022 at 7:07 PM, Soloman Tump said:

This is kinda like Autechre made a baby with Moderat and I like it 

that's a 3 way.. or 4 way. proper orgy. 

anyway.. i like the fear ratio. have followed them since that first skam release. good shit. 

some of Slinky reminds of that dude Vlad who had releases on skam way back. EMo Droids or whatever it was called. but less hiphop electro and more techy. 

whatever happened to that Vlad stuff? still available digitally. 

Love this album! L10, LFIVE and Lacovset are new favourites, but there's a lot of other great tracks on here. A lot of AE NTS vibes, especially on tracks like NB AP, STMS and BS2. Didn't like the King Kashmere tracks before the album was released, but I've really warmed up to them, they make the album work better. It does lose some momentum towards the end, though. Effem feels like an out of place Plaid track or something.