And here I find myself again listening to, and thoroughly enjoying, a second album by a dubstep artist when I’ve not even heard the artist’s supposed breakthrough debut.

OK so it’s not that much like Burial, but it’s not noisy dubstep for the dancefloor either. Instead it’s an ace collection of tracks in which you can easily lose yourself; beautiful and not always complicated, with significant crossover towards IDM and that style of emotional techno purveyed by the likes of Vince Watson or Steve Rachmad.

I have to say it’s not exactly my dubstep epiphany, but it’s when genres collide that sometimes really interesting things happen.

DESCRIBE IT IN THREE WORDS
atmospheric, inoffensive, emotional

MUM DANCE FACTOR
Definitely not. (1/5)

COVER ART
Typical anonymous form/structure type illustration which does nothing for the album’s longevity. (2/5)

VERDICT
(3.5/5)

The sample track I’ve chosen here is the last one on the album, Escape Velocity.

Unbalance is out now on Tectonic.

Take them back to the 90s, and this delicate, sweet, kind love song from Notorious B.I.G and R. Kelly, from his 1997 album “Life After Death”.

“You must be used to me spendin
And all that sweet winin and dinin
Well I’m fuckin you tonight”

Lovely.

Notorious BIG feat R Kelly - Fuck You Tonight