Actress

SPLAZSH (2LP)

Honest Jons Records

HJRLP049 / 947611

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Darren Cunninghams Eagerly Awaited New Album Is An Adventurous, Ultramodern, Thoroughly British Affair, Rummaging About In The Inner Lives Of House And Techno, And Brilliantly Elaborating The Accomplishments Of His Debut, Hazyville. Determinedly Off The Map And Resistant To Pigeonholing, Cunningham Is An Enigmatic And Playful Figure, Citing Francis Bacon And Monet As Inspirations Alongside Theo Parrish, Anthony Shake Shakir, Daft Punk, Binary Codes And Numeral Systems, And The Avengers. Hes A Hard Man To Pin Down ? Somehow A Key Player In The Post Dubstep Diaspora And Yet Not There At All ? But Everything Comes Across In His Shape Shifting, Richly Textured Music. The South Londoners Acclaimed Debut Lived Up To Its Name: A Series Of Dreamlike Sketches And Ideas. For Splazsh The Fog Has Lifted, The Sounds Are Less Submerged Than Before, But Still Sticky And Close ? A Signature Combination Of Exuberance And Introversion, Luminescence And Puzzlement. Unconstrained By The Formal Cliches Of The Dance Music He Loves, Actress Melodies And Arrangements Are Enthralled By Their Own Genies