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Experienced London-based producer/musician Oli Bayston (aka Boxed In) debuted one of our favourite tracks of the latter end of 2013 with “All Your Love Is Gone”. Now he’s back with another piece of assured piano pop in “No Joke”.

Besides his work playing keyboards for the likes of Willy Mason or writing songs for The 2 Bears and Rosie Lowe, Bayston is a talented artist in his own right, no better displayed than on this creeping earworm of a single.

A bouncy spaghetti house beat, 90s motif piano, Bayston’s curled vocal and misshapen synth wobbles accumulate to represent something not too far removed from Hot Chip’s imaginative indietronica. It’s perfect piano pop given the electronica once over; enough weird and enough wonderful.

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Boxed In - No Joke

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Un Puente (Ácido Pantera Remix) [feat. Angelica Garcia]

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GRD004 - Solitary Dancer

Out 30th September 2016 on Vinyl & Digital - https://tinyurl.com/GRD004

For its fourth release, Harry Agius aka Midland's Graded label has signed its first new act in the form of Montreal-based Solitary Dancer. With ‘Desire & Apathy’ being instantly familiar to anyone who heard Midland's Essential Mix earlier this year— in which it subsequently proved to be a much asked about inclusion— this eponymously titled release marks the debut of Solitary Dancer, as well as Agius' second time stepping into the role of label A&R following Hubie Davidson's appearance on Graded's ‘Regraded' sub-label last year.

From the opening moments of the EP's title track it is apparent why Aguis welcomed this release to the label, with 'Desire & Apathy' highlighting Solitary Dancer's similarly shared talent for elegant, richly-sculpted sound design and a knack for propulsive club rhythms that eschew rigid 4x4 drum patterns. 'Desire & Apathy' takes a classic electro beat and through the use of elegaic pad washes and swells of sinister bass notes morphs it into persistently engaging shapes. 

The B-side's 'Paradise Found' is a suspenseful coralling of intriguing sonic elements, with its fractured beats combined with a cinematic sense of drama and melancholy that's brought to the fore on the beatless 'Rapture Version' which brings Solitary Dancer's first release to an impressive close.

Solitary Dancer - Paradise Found [GRD004]

Paradise Blown

The Herb

Play God and Shit Happens

Release Info

Premiere: Knowsum - Touching After Midnight [Money $ex Records]

Circadian Rhythms

Torn Blue

In Sides

Out There Somewhere (Part 1)

Perception is/as/of Deception

We Look Between Each Other

The Brown Album Expanded | Out Now
https://orbitalband.lnk.to/brownalbumSD

Out There Somewhere (Part 1)

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