lurka: holding

Bristol acetate carver and drum major, Lurka launches his Black Acre debut with three unpredictable drum machine battle drills. It all kicks off with "Holding," a technoid-inflected dancehall pounder with a relentless low-end theory. The anxious heartbeat littered with schizophrenic percussion and alarm bells bursting into an undead army marching anthem. On "Nah So" crushing kick drums perform the body blows under intricate hi-hat programming. "KMT," the most meditative of the three, gives nods to Alan Howarth's bleak synthesizer work while high-fiving Schoolly D's drum machine.