Subtle: A New White

Personnel

Group: Subtle
Group members: Adam Drucker, Jordan Dalrymple, Marty Dowers, Alexander Kort, Jeffrey Logan, Dax Pierson

Tracklist, Audio, Purchase

Quotes

“Like Outkast, Subtle are one of the very few acts talking hip hop in a genuinely new and unexpected direction.” 4/5 Q

“Doseone’s enervated, darkish vocal style belies the fast-cut fury of his rapping, backed by an ever-morphing backbeat of guitars, keyboards, orchestral instruments, dub breaks and luminous moments amid the wreckage.” 4/5 Uncut

“A New White will thrill those drawn to imaginative and variable beat patterns, moody, heavily textured soundscapes and cranky vocals that defy the the distinctions between rap, speech and singing. Damaged, delicate, disorientating and damned fine.” Time Out

“In the lyrical agility and the diverse portfolio of cultural referents, studio tricknology and sheer sense of play with the degraded hip hop format, they are in a league of their own… These songs contain the flotsam of a life lived in a confusing phase, swept up and deposited in cabinets of curiosities, like Joseph Cornell boxes in which all manner of obtuse observations, fragmentary images, scraps of notes, talismanic cast-off junk and discarded letters are meticulously arranged. Rap’s future is… rapt.” The Wire

“Drucker and Logan infuse their project with an almost psychedelic sensibility, it’s less hip hop than mood music… one of the warmest examples of electronic music with heart.” XLR8R

“Doseone continues his mission to bring gonzoid hip hop to the world with this project… drones combine with glitchy beats, beaten-up guitar and electric cello to mesmerising effect.” The Observer

Media

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