Holy Other - With U

Wait till the monday, this gonna be great.

Samples: http://www.juno.co.uk/products/423918-01.htm

Cd & Vinyl:

http://boomkat.com/cds/409741-holy-other-with-u

http://boomkat.com/vinyl/409743-holy-other-with-u

  Quote

**Manchester's own Holy Other touches down on Tri Angle with five sumptuous jams occupying the spooked space between R&B, techno and dark ambient**. It's tempting to call it witch-house, of course, but Holy Other's productions are so subtle and carefully wrought that we'd be doing him a huge disservice if we did. This music deserves to be taken on its own terms: as emotive and supremely evolved electronic music with a real force of personality. We're drawn in with 'Know Where', a sleepy-eyed, mid-paced groover that sketches out the Holy Other universe: hard-jerking drums, synth ambience, technoid bleeps, eerie vocal snatches; it's from this palette that he paints 'Yr Love' (think Kassem Mosse meets Hype Williams on a beach in Ibiza) and the similarly chugging 'With U' and 'Feel Something'. The EP's unmistakable centrepiece however is 'Touch' - it sounds like 2-step pitched-down and re-strung for Valium-munchers, Burial-esque vocal pressure meeting ultra-minimal, jeep-rocking claps and downshifting darkside synths in 10,000 leagues of reverb, making for a track as slickly cinematic as it is disorienting and plain RUDE. Put simply, it's the kind of twisted but oddly romantic R&B futurism which Tri Angle consistently excels at sourcing. Yes, the tropes Holy Other works with are largely tried and tested, but with his high production values he massages them into something distinctive and truly powerful.

I previewed this on bleep this morning. Sounds nice.

Could you put less effort into an album cover though, come on!

This EP is surprisingly dope, especially the first two tracks.

I've been enjoying this along with rainforest by clams casino.

yea, sounds good to me

Overrated in my humble opinion.

Second track is sound as a pound, and very good, the rest is forgettable.

Yeah I love this album, wish there was more.

I'm having serious Burial withdrawls tho...

Hmm… nothing special sadly. His remixes are far better than his own tracks except for the name giving title track which has a excellent slowed down breakdown bathed in a high fashion spring reverb.

I was first thinking about the 12" but then I cancelled this idea as the last tracks aren't that great :o(

Hope his second album (or EP at least) will be better).

I enjoy it, its not absolutely breath taking but I still really like it.

If anyone is curious, this and all the other Tri Angle releases have appeared on Spotify. Not sure how long they have been there but I have checked in the past with no joy.

I do enjoy this release, saw him live supporting Little Dragon and he played some wicked tracks that I had never heard before. Brilliant!

Triangle's been one of my fav labels lately, love this ep.

  On 8/24/2011 at 4:44 PM, beerwolf said:

Overrated in my humble opinion.

 

Second track is sound as a pound, and very good, the rest is forgettable.

Still agree with this.

He seems to of been fairly quiet, I'd check out anything new by him because that 2nd track is perfect.

4 of the 5 tracks seem to use the same backwards loop in some form.