Can you hint at what's on the Pinch record Nick?
All in good time! Although I will say that, as hinted in the interview in Woofah, its a 2-CD set, one being a vocal version of the album and the other instrumental.
and for anyone curious to know, the release date is currently scheduled for 2nd Nov (on Tectonic, not Planet Mu).
it's just he's stuck too much to a formula, his tracks are tracky tracks feat very little apart from his riffy riffing, compared with two coki tracks from a couple years back - as paul has pointed out - even over two big slabs of vinyl it's a much more boring record than early stuff, with alot less going on.
I agree - i still think that 'Officer/Mood Dub' is one of the greatest dubstep twelves ever. they're complete pieces of music, beautifully structured, completely satisfying. The tracky stuff is okay up to a point and i agree nobody else can achieve that coki 'swing', but based on those earlier tunes it seems a bit lazy, like he made a great backing track but never made that extra effort to truly
compose.
even boxcutter, who i've previously thought was a bit of a mixture of being too stiff and being too squarepusher of dubstep has pretty much found his step on his new one.
Yeah, Barry's new album is fucking lush, really opening up the sound...those 'Analord' style tracks were a surprise too!