Kode 9
Escapology
While Kode 9 has forever been on the cutting edge, pushing bass culture and surrounding discourses to the very limit, Escapology is without doubt the Hyperdub boss's most conceptual and boundary-blurring body of work to date. Part of a wider project which involves a game, an installation and layers of political discussion and concerns, his fourth album is part soundtrack, part ambient immersion and part club bangers. Ice cold and jarring at points ('Sim Darien', 'Astro Darien'), mindbogglingly heavy and physically flippant at others ('Uncoil', 'Lagrange Point'), Escapology commands full attention as it sucks you deeper and deeper into Kode 9's pragmatic and concerned vantage point. An album that will keep on giving for many many years to come.
| LP | Hyperdub: HYPLP 004 | upcoming |
