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Sepalcure 'Folding Time' (Hotflush Recordings)
They may have garnered plaudits in their solo careers as, respectively, Machinedrum and Braille, but when Travis Stewart and Praveen Sharma come together as Sepalcure, something magical happens. That ‘Folding Time’ doesn’t veer too wildly from the musical hallmark of their self-titled 2011 debut is a good thing: Stewart and Sharma take the rawness of UK bass and the angular rhythms of footwork and force them through a deep house filter, before painting an emotional wash across it. You can hear it on the dubby ‘Been So True’ and the hyperactive ambient jungle of ‘Ask Me’, although it’s the convulsive percussion and cut-up vocals overwhelming ‘Not Gonna Make It’ that sounds like Machinedrum in microcosm.
7/10
