Dialog - Run Silent Run Deep

This is for those who love returning home mashed up after a nightclub, passing round a spliff and sticking on some chillout. Does anyone still do that? I’m not sure, but this album has post-club written all over it. The usual suspects all appear, although they’re anything but offensive: deep house, dub, broken beats, instrumental ambient, soft flute, bongos and synth washes. With a bit less of an adherence to the back-to-mine-I’ve-got-beanbags template and a bit more personality, it could almost be an atmospheric soundtrack – the spooky highlight Absent, with its desert slide guitars, is befitting of a David Lynch dream sequence. Despite the genre-box-ticking, there’s a dark, brooding streak hiding throughout, rendering it more Badlands than Balearic. That might just be enough to really put an unwary clubhead’s comedown into tailspin.