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2021, 2×12″ LP, Silverlining Dubs.
It may have taken him 25 years and countless 12″s, but finally, Silverlining has delivered his first ever artist album. In keeping with his trademark style, the album’s seven cuts – which explore themes of dependence on misrecognised digital identities, and the importance of real world tangibility – are smothered in spacey synth sounds, chunky, dub-fuelled bass and warped electronics. Interestingly, it’s a lot more musically diverse than many might expect. There are a number of typically intergalactic excursions powered by punchy electro beats (see ‘Observa (featuring Ntem)’ and ‘Contraculture’), cuts that doff a cap to classic deep house and US garage (‘Aura’, ‘Schema’), an acid-flecked deep space proto-house jam (‘Tundra’), and even a head-nodding trip-hop workout (‘Recognitia’). Terrific stuff, all told. – Juno