Justin Pearson (Dead Cross, Deaf Club, The Locust), Luke Henshaw (Sonido de la Frontera), Kevin Avery (Field Day, Retox) and Scott Osment (Deaf Club, Glassing, Volente Beach) formed Planet B with the shared purpose of creating music subversive in sound and sobering in message. Their music lays somewhere just out of reach of genre, with aesthetics rooted in hip hop, hardcore punk, turntablism, and 70s-80s horror movie scores. It is catchy, heavily percussive, and eerie all at once, much like the creative output of dark dance duo ADULT., a pair that seek to harness βthe perverse aspects of the late '70s analog dystopian post-modernism.β These artistsβ bodies of work mirror one another in form and function, and both βRelease Meβ and βGlass in The trashβ encapsulates the ethos of both, allowing the duosβ similar mindsets to collide. Nicola Kuperusβs hypnotic vocals add an occult aura, mysteriously alluring and supernatural, pulsating and equally intense alongside Pearsonβs aggressive style. Henshaw and Adam Lee Millerβs sampling, sequencing and synthesizing entangle and diverge seamlessly, providing dance-driven soundtracks fit for an apocalypse. Both tracks ebb and flow, pull and push, begs to be released and yet remains throbbing in your head long after it ends.
This record has been recorded by Adam Lee Miller and Luke Henshaw. Mixed and mastered by Brent Asbury at Measurable Harm.
Design and layout by The Black Moon Design.
Album photography by Becky DiGiglio.
Track Listing:
01. Glass in the Trash
02. Release Me