Albums
Numbers Lucent - EP
2009
Genre: Electronic
Release Date: 2009
By Mike Orme
Reviewed January 22, 2009
Hot on the heels of October's concept album Just a Souvenir, Tom Jenkinson gets back to his raving roots with six meditations on drum'n'bass, breakcore, and acid house.
One salient observation rarely made about Tom Jenkinson, aka Squarepusher, is that within his often-meandeirng canon, he skillfully navigates the path between invention and interpretation. Save a few releases (last fall's rock concert-fantasy among them), d'n'b freakouts like those on his new EP have dominated the rhythmic tenor of Jenkinson's schizoid suites. Jenkinson's virtuosic bass work and his jazz training, however, just as often forge a path between breakbeats and fusion. Such live-band musings, even if largely theoretical, have set him apart from his more austere dancefloor cohorts.