Albums of the Decade - 76. Zomby - Dedication

76. ZOMBY - DEDICATION

Back to back with Kode9 on this list for a straight-up double dose of irresistable dub and jungle. Sometimes I wish shit lke this would get a better playout in public, be it a bar or a mall, a carwash or a salon. Essentially a sketchbook of barbed melodies, arpeggiated and off-kilter - it just kicks up a skank and then mellows out, before kicking up a skank again and then mellowing out once more.

Zomby typifies the mess of London in a non-unabridged way. There is a childlike zig-zag to the thematics of this album. It's all over the shop stylewise, but the synths permeate through. When it's 16 songs with smatterings of bass @ just over 35 minutes - you might feel a bit pertubed on paper and I wouldn't blame ya. I was too, until I hit the big green play button; you won't regret it.

top records of 2011 - 8. Zomby - Dedication

8. ZOMBY - DEDICATION

This guy. Who is this guy? He's released a bag of stuff in such a short space of time. He's British and is mostly concerned with releases that jump all over the shop and this one is a nice introduction, even though it's not his first album, I don't care; it's brilliant and I'll be checking out all his other shit for sure.

It's hardly the dubstep of Burial, but man this is less of the soul and more of the limbs. Moving your limbs, darting around, head spinning crazy, bonkers nutjob shit all over the shop. Burial gets his head down and walks across the city, this lets its hair down and gets all ditzy.

The album is the sound of electronic spaghetti. Does that mean it should be the album of the year here? Well, we're maturing around these parts. Get ready for a Coldplay # 1. Ahem.

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