King Midas Sound, Waiting For You
Featured Album
Capturing the various kinds of high-tech bruised romanticism represented by Hyperdub
A sadness runs through much of Hyperdub's output — a combination of urban loneliness, nostalgia for the lost fire and unity of the rave years, and a politically-charged sense of a world in chaos. Burial's albums have been the most celebrated encapsulation of this, and Darkstar's tapping into a particularly northern English melancholia has been making waves lately. But it's King Midas Sound's album which perhaps best captures the various kinds of high-tech bruised romanticism represented by Hyperdub: the none-heavier production of Kevin Martin's The Bug project sublimated into post-human dreamscapes, vast in scale in contrast to the fragile and all-too-human voices of Roger Robinson and Hitomi which gently, tentatively try to express emotion in a desolate world.
