rainer veil: new brutalism

Liam Morley and Dan Valentine aka Rainer Veil return with New Brutalism, an exploration of angular, brittle club music. Referencing the stripped-down, utilitarian aesthetic of Brutalist architecture, the five tracks here mine looped, blocky source material gradually embellished with more complex, percussive and atmospheric layers that are at once robust and introspective. From the opening woodblock/rave dismantling of "UK Will Not Survive" to the heady hardcore of "Three Day Jag," the EP evokes a distinctly Northern British Weltanschauung.