Lorn – Debris

Lorn confirms in just four tracks why he is one of the most forward-thinking and intelligent producers in the bass music spectrum. Where Ask The Dust was by turns elegiac and fragile, then brooding and industrial, these new tracks showcase a greater fascination with texture. Each sound is processed, treated with natural reverb, sourced from multiply-affected field recordings.

The result is a greater depth of field, and a willingness to stray even further from the notional, already destroyed templates of dubstep, or even electronic music. The stamping, industrial funk of Bury Your Brother is quite unlike anything you have heard this year. Lorn is a composer, a visionary, and if this EP is anything to go by, his best work is in front of him. [Bram E. Gieben]