No Favours vinyl

True to the name, on his latest dyst-opiate ear ingestible drug for Sneaker Social Club, longtime breaks-crud experimenter Christoph De Babalon does no favours nor holds no hands of new initiates to his cult craft. This legend's debut EP on the concretist audio graffito label hears Babalon lower the tempo to a relatively slower pace than usual, allowing for a cruddier, tape-hued texture to emerge. The theme is as grave and dangerous as ever, finding a perverse enjoyment in themes of utter hopelessness and despair. The more eclectic heads will roll at the B-side's trickier treats: 'Jaded Memory' uses designer breaks and artificially harmonic belfry yanks to dread-inducing effect, while the closer 'Dearth Mill' hints at themes of depleted resources through its freq-buried, cogjammed breaks.