Bermondsey Social Club, London
Two south London singers and Brit school graduates breathe fresh life into downbeat dubstep with the help of jazz beats and hip-hop
Just when you think downbeat electronic confessionals – the London millennial sound, bar none – have been wrung dry of inspiration by both innovators and copyists, along comes a standout record that resets its co-ordinates.
South Londoner Jamie Isaac has just released Couch Baby, his accomplished, immersive debut album. This 40-minute live set marks its launch, in a bijou converted railway arch located on the same side of the Thames as the album was written. Twelve tracks that combine stoned languor – on record, you can hear something being lit and inhaled – and brooding melancholia, Couch Baby is the sort of record you can wrap yourself up in, headphones on, lights turned down. There are precisely no changes of pace to liven things up; you’re either with Isaac in his magisterial, ambient dub sulk or you’re not. Live and loud, it feels akin to hip-hop: breakbeats and jazz brushstrokes to the fore, bass that rattles the wood panelling on tracks such as the standout Pigeon, tall people nodding hard, transported.
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