(Dubstep, UK Garage) L.V. & Joshua Idehen - Routes (Keysound Recordings [LDN022]) [WEB] - 2011, MP3, 320 kbps

Artist: L.V. & Joshua Idehen
Title.: Routes (LDN022)
Label.: Keysound Recordings
Cat.nr: LDN022
Year..: 2011
Genre.: Dubstep, UK Funky, UK Garage, Electronic
Release Date: 09/05/2011
Size..: 94 MB
Tracks: 12
Length: 40:35 min
Source: WEB
Quality..: 320kbps / 44,1Khz / Full Stereo
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Tracklist:
01: L.V. & Joshua Idehen - I Know           [04:18]
02: L.V. & Joshua Idehen - Tough            [04:15]
03: L.V. & Joshua Idehen - Northern Line    [03:04]
04: L.V. & Joshua Idehen - Lean Back        [04:05]
05: L.V. & Joshua Idehen - Never Tired      [02:22]
06: L.V. & Joshua Idehen - Talk Talk        [03:00]
07: L.V. & Joshua Idehen - Melt             [05:05]
08: L.V. & Joshua Idehen - Primary Colours  [01:58]
09: L.V. & Joshua Idehen - Deleted Scene    [04:27]
10: L.V. & Joshua Idehen - Past Tense       [02:50]
11: L.V. & Joshua Idehen - Murkish Delights [02:37]
12: L.V. & Joshua Idehen - Last Night       [02:34]
Release Notes:
Hyperdub badmen LV collaborate with vocalist Joshua Idehen
across an album that has to rank as one of the most substantial
yet winningly slinky artist albums to come out of the post-dubstep
diaspora. Iden's half-sung, half-spoken lyrical style is probably
most mischievous on 'Northern Line', which pays tongue-in-cheek
tribute to each stop on the eponymous London tube route ("What do you
know about Moorgate? I don't know anything about Moorgate! What do you
know about Old Street? Some of the girls there are quite sweet...")
LV's production, meanwhile, is just class throughout, muscular, agile
and restlessly imaginative: 'I Know' squeezes gully UKF percussion into
a crisp garage flex, the sugar-coating of synths and Idehen's ice-cool
lyrics begging to be pumped out of your Punto this summer. 'Tough' is a
previously unimagined fusion of dubstep and boogie-funk, complete
with (!) slap-bass; with their jazzy inflections and phased techno chords,
'Never Tired' and 'Talk Talk' summon turn-of-the-century broken beat,
and 'Melt' spatters Mujava-style bleeps across a tuff bedrock of martial
funky snares. Euphoric rave interlude 'Primary Colours' clears the decks
for the album's dread-infused closing strait: spanning the heartbroken
2-step of 'Deleted Scene' and 'Past Tense', paranoid, world-weary urban
reverie 'Murkish Delights' (wherein Idehen equates The X Factor with smack
abuse) and concluding with 'Last Night', all gamelan, serotonin-sapped keys
and oodles of delay. Often when a production duo calls upon a vocalist to flesh
out their sound and widen its appeal, it simply has a diluting effect. But
Joshua Idehen doesn't just feel like a tacked-on guest to Routes, it's his
album as much as LV's; his contributions are charming, measured and crucial
to the album's success. The ambition of Routes is clear - it evidently
aspires to rhapsodise and encapsulate all that's good and bad about
life in 21st century London. And you know what? It pretty much succeeds.
Highly recommended.