LUKID - UNDERLOOP

1. Underloop
2. Chunk
3. Reducer
4. Colic
5. The Secret Of Bell Making
6. Toy Surge
7. New River
8. Underhand Brokery
9. Mosquito Trampolines
10. Overloop
11. Fagle

Experimental oddities from Lukid (aka Luke Blair) in the form of album 'Underloop', released on London-based imprint Death Is Not The End Records - a rare offering under this moniker, this being only his third studio album in over twenty years.

Notes from the label - 

After following Luke Blair's work for approaching two decades from his 2007 debut as Lukid on Actress' Werk Discs, we're humbled to present a new album on Death Is Not The End. Following relatively hot on the heels of 2023's Tilt (his first in 11 years, not counting his work with Jackson Bailey under the Rezzett guise) Underloop brings Blair's innate knack for building loops and sound structures further to the surface, while allowing his ear for emotional expression to be dialled up a notch.

Those fortunate enough to be familiar with Lukid's work as a DJ will be aware of how distinct his ability is to seamlessly disappear into loop-based abstraction and back again seemingly without blinking, and often Underloop feels much like a collection of the sludgey interludes and foggy sketches that underpin his sets. Blending apparently ramshackle melodies and textures and pulling them together into an undeniable whole, Blair's tendency for pairing the simple and the indescribable with an understated vigour is fully on show here.

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