Ziúr – Eyeroll

Berlin-based producer Ziúr creates deconstructed dance music that beats with a human heart. Her previous album Antifate took its inspiration from medieval myth, but her latest pushes her sound into more extreme and abstract territories. Working with a diverse ensemble of collaborators (including Juliana Huxtable, Ledef and Emptyset's James Ginzburg) it’s a Frankenstein stitch-up of an album; 11 tracks expertly pieced together with a unique blend of mechanical noise and scuffling organic percussion.

The album lurches into life with Eyeroll, as Welsh experimental musician Elvin Brandhi gurgles and croaks over the frenzied rattle of rototoms before violently awakening to proclaim that she 'rolls the shittiest cigarettes'. These tracks (with the exception of country music-inspired closer Lacrymaturity) bludgeon with an industrial heft, but listen closely and you can hear a nervous pulse running through them.

This is best observed on Move On, in which Egyptian composer Abdullah Miniawy’s mournful trumpet cuts through Ziúr’s unstable rhythmic backdrop to add depth and texture to Manchester MC Iceboy Violet’s cutting verses. By all accounts this fusion of genres should feel awkward and unworkable, but Ziúr fuses these elements together with the precision of a mad scientist unaware of the monster they’ve just created.

Listen to: Malikan, Move On, Nontrivial Differential