Download SQUAREPUSHER - LAMENTAL EP [WAP440DX]

HQ "Squarepusher - Lamental EP"
Music-Style Drum and Bass, IDM Breakbeat, Ambient, Acid, Trip-Hop, Intelligent Dance Music, Drill and Bass, Abstract-Electronica
EP date 10/04/2020
Format MP3 320 kbps | lossless 16/24bit hi-res
Cat WAP440DX
Label Warp Records [We Are Reasonable People]

tracklist 24bits
1. Squarepusher — The Paris Track 6:56 {1531 kbps}
2. Squarepusher — Detroit People Mover 4:26 {1319 kbps}
3. Squarepusher — Les Mains Dansent 1:21 {419 kbps}
4. Squarepusher — Midi Sans Frontieres (Avec Batterie) 6:01 {1429 kbps}
5. Squarepusher — Midi Sans Frontieres 6:04 {1326 kbps}

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Revealing a contemplative side to the music Tom Jenkinson has been making over the last few years as Squarepusher, ‘Lamental’ is the melodic switchback to his 2020 ‘Be Up A Hello’ album. Highlights include a spacey synth techno of “The Paris Track”, the deep breakbeat rework “Avec Batterie” and the beautifully plaintive, wave-like slow roller “MIDI Sans Frontières”.

Beatport100.com Product Review: Hyper jazz-fusion savant Squarepusher frolics in a halcyon ‘90s style on the sibling 12” to the highly enjoyable ‘Be Up A Hello’ album! Carrying some of his most ‘floor-friendly and easy-to-handle tunes in an age, ‘Lamental’ revives the wet-eyed melancholy and fancy rush of his early stuff, tweaking his boxes between swooning acid techno romance in ‘The Paris Track’, what sound like a Giallo soundtrack fro a scene set in the 313 with ‘Detroit People Mover’, and nostalgic hip hop breaks on ‘Midi Sans Frontieres (Avec batterie)’, and its vegan option, ‘Midi Sans Frontieres’.

Squarepusher keeps us on our toes by dropping new EP Lamental hot on the heels of his recent full-length Be Up A Hello. Whereas that album was full of whirlwind breakbeats and tense atmospheres, this new set of tunes contains some of the stateliest and most emotive production that Squarepusher has presented us with in some time.

On Lamental, Squarepusher shifts the focus away from rhythm and towards harmony. Indeed, two of the five tracks here contain little or no percussion. While the title of ‘Detroit People Mover’ may intimate an energetic club cut, the music itself offers nothing of the sort. With its fizzing keys and wistful chord progressions this track actually has more in common with the cerebral film-scoring work of Angelo Badalamenti and Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never). The same can be said of Lamental’s closing number ‘Midi Sans Frontieres’, though the occasional kick-drum interjections and heavy wash of reverb also points us in the direction of Lorenzo Senni.

Even when beats are introduced Lamental is a more measured version of Squarepusher's style. This isn't to say that you couldn't drop ‘Midi Sans Frontieres (Avec Batterie)’ and ‘The Paris Track’ in a DJ set - the rolling breaks of the former and latter’s perky stomp, in fact, lend themselves very well to the dancefloor. However, you never get the sense that these tracks will pull the rug out from under your feet, their elegant synths marching on with the same command that one finds in Jean-Michel Jarre’s best work. Squarepusher’s Lamental EP is a ruminative delight from a consistent innovator.