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01. Pessimist - Intro
02. Pessimist - Bloom
03. Pessimist - Grit
04. Pessimist - Spirals
05. Pessimist Featuring Loop Faction - Glued
06. Pessimist - War Cry
07. Pessimist - Peter Hitchens
08. Pessimist Featuring Overlook - No Matter What
09. Pessimist - Through The Fog
10. Pessimist - Outro
ARTIST
TITLE
Pessimist
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
BLACKEST 017CD BLACKEST 017CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
9/29/2017

With his ice-cold debut album, Pessimist delivers a defining work which represents the culmination of nearly a decade of collective research and development in underground drum'n'bass. It is hard to think of any producer, past or present, who has so skillfully and successfully bridged the sonics and sensibilities of d'n'b and techno. In fact, Pessimist makes drum'n'bass work as techno: combining the monotone, infinite-horizon quality of the latter with the rhythmic swerve and soundsystem heft of the former. Cutting edge techno-d'n'b hybrids form the backbone of this, his first LP, but there's more to it than that. Out of its relentlessly noir, paranoid, smoked-out dubscape, emerge fierce, Babylon-shall-fall jungle tear-outs ("Through The Fog"); zoned, acidic rave ("Peter Hitchens"); downtempo breakbeat excursions ("Glued"); sleek and rude "Balaklava"-esque steppers ("Spirals"); and passages of bleak, bombed-out industrial ambience. At times it feels like the missing link between British Murder Boys and Source Direct, or what might have happened if late '90s UK jungle-ists had listened more closely to Chain Reaction. The ruthless minimalism, and the tension which comes of that restraint; the swing and propulsion of the drum programming; the abyssal reverbs and long trails of delay; the deep and body-numbing sub-bass; the uncompromising palette of blacks and blues. Features Loop Faction and Overlook.