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I'll Be OK

by Irrelevant

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1.
Cosmos 02:31
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2.
No Love 06:58
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3.
Below Zero 03:56
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4.
Wake Up (Interlude) 01:20
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5.
Eventide 05:58
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6.
Self Harm Pt. 1 01:12
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7.
Betray 05:42
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8.
Saigon Tears 09:22
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9.
Blame You 06:21
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10.
Better Off in Me (featuring Brad Sucks) 06:45
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11.
Self Harm Pt. 2 04:40
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12.
Flicker 03:27
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13.
Human Nature 02:02
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about

(excerpt from RA review)

A young but growing label, London-based label Kokeshi has been steeped in romantic aestheticism, a loved-up warmth that conveniently aligned its output with trendy goings-on in the Autonomic movement. Mostly centered around drum & bass and dubstep, Colchester producer Irrelevant's "Better Off in Me" is one of the label's highlights, sitting in the sorta-garage borderlands between house-friendly tempos and dubstep. His debut album I'll Be OK continues on this thread....

.....Vocal samples, chirping synths, springy and swingy drums, all lathered in a heavy coat of reverb: Irrelevant's sound is not an unfamiliar one. But look closer and his structures are slightly off kilter: often his vocal samples seem like they're falling off the beat and landing in jagged crooks. Tracks like "No Love" and "Betray" are so swollen with the weight of their emotions that they basically topple over and spill out, and the clashing of vocals and beats creates a dissonance more heartbreaking than any hackneyed chord progression.

There are lots of traditionally melancholic elements on I'll Be OK too, however, whether it's the metallic guitar strums of "Below Zero" or the elegant and painstaking "Eventide," a subtle track with an ebbing atmosphere. Even more crucially, Irrelevant makes use of drum & bass/dark garage's burrowing basslines but turns them inside out—much like Burial—so their rise and fall becomes not a rushing high but a sad and sometimes menacing undercurrent to his tracks. These basslines are the secret weapon for what makes tracks like "Better Off In Me" and especially album highlight suite "Self Harm" so riveting, empowering the sadsack trudging with a heartsick mobility.

credits

released November 14, 2011

All tracks written and produced by J. Pratt aka Irrelevant
*except* Vocals and Lyrics on Better Off in Me by Brad Sucks

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Kokeshi London, UK

Kokeshi is a London-based record label encompassing emotive bass-heavy sounds influenced by future garage, dubstep, drum'n'bass, trip-hop and more. Check our podcasts in iTunes- search for Kokeshi.

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