SPLINTrd exists in a place where genres slip down into the cracks between sounds; a place where rules and circuits are both there to be bent. A place where beats are broken and melted down into glitchy velvet electronic textures as light breaks through the cloak of night. 
SPLINTrd is king in a kingdom of his own creation, where the ethereal meets the visceral head-on. The beautiful and familiar collide with the fearful and unknown, as stripped back soundscapes sit side by side with twisted electro, downtempo bleeps full of warmth and joy nestle happily with bass heavy dub techno. Nowhere is the splendour of SPLINTrd’s eclectic and bittersweet world more evident than on his stunning 2013 debut album “Staring Out Of Windows”.
The roots of SPLINTrd’s melting pot of influences can be traced back to the underground parties and warehouse raves which a young Gregory Baker enjoyed in the closing years of the twentieth century. Ravenously absorbing a wide range of dj sets from acid techno to psytrance, house to jungle to breaks, the wheels were set in motion. 1210’s were borrowed, a bag of vinyl was acquired, and young Greg locked himself away until he could mix. Soon, going by the name of Gregory B, gigs in London, the North, and Europe followed. Soon tiring of hard house, the allure of fat wonky breakbeat drew Greg to different quarters. 
However, after several years playing regularly throughout London and the South, at the end of the noughties, Greg grew jaded of being in the thick of the club scene and decided to focus his energies in the studio. 
Having now been producing for half a decade, Greg’s razor sharp studio skills are exhibited as SPLINTrd (he also moonlights as Skelta) on remixes for the likes of Cauldronated, DPPLGNGRS, Joshua McAllister, and Harbou, and original tracks on a raft of highly respected labels, with Detroit’s Division X Records releasing SPLINTrd’s 2012 EP “Watching Night Come Amber”, and 2013’s “Staring Out Of Windows” album on LABEL.

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“We should try again to talk,” Frances Quinlan writes. It not just a lyric—it’s a suggestion, a warning, a plea, a wish. This request is woven throughout Likewise, her forthcoming solo album, amidst dramatically shifting motifs. Some are jubilant, some are dreamy and abstract, and a few are sinister, but within each dark void that Quinlan explores, there is a light peering back at her.

Frances Quinlan has built an identity for herself over the past decade as the lead songwriter and front-woman of the Philadelphia-based band Hop Along, and her distinct voice is among the most recognizable and inimitable in music. While the band began as Quinlan's solo project (originally titled Hop Along, Queen Ansleis), Likewise (out January 31st on Saddle Creek) is Quinlan's debut under her own name. To make the record, she enlisted the virtuosic skills of her bandmate Joe Reinhart, and together they produced the album at his studio, The Headroom, recording in stints over the course of a year.

With a renewed openness to explore different sounds, Quinlan supplements her typical guitar-based instrumentation with synthesizers, digital beats, harps, strings, and a wide variety of keyboards. The shifting and exploratory nature of these musical arrangements allow her lyrics and vocals—which have always been at the forefront of her music—to reach emotional depths like never before. Her vocal tones beckon a kaleidoscopic range of emotions across all nine songs on the album, from soft and ruminative to enraged and commanding; from conveying powerful messages to highlighting small, yet poignant, moments.    

Quinlan is a voyaging songwriter. Throughout Likewise, she confronts what confounds her in the hopes that she will come out on the other side with a better sense of what it is to be human. She presents listeners with a complicated, albeit spirited vision of what it could mean to truly engage with another person, to give a small piece of oneself over to someone else without expectation. Although such is likely to be a lifelong effort, these songs prove evident that light can still permeate from unsettling depths

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