Dan Le Sac -Space Between The Words -PIAS UK / SUNDAY BEST CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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01. Le Sac, Dan / Merz "Long night of life"

02. Le Sac, Dan / Williams White, Sarah "Play along"

03. Le Sac, Dan / Emmy The Great "Memorial"

04. Le Sac, Dan "Reprisals"

05. Le Sac, Dan / Idehen, Joshua "Tuning"

06. Le Sac, Dan / B Dolan "Good time gang war"

07. Le Sac, Dan "Hold yourself lightly"

08. Le Sac, Dan / Merz "Zephyr"

09. Le Sac, Dan / Rowan, Fraser "Breathing underwater"

10. Le Sac, Dan / HowAboutBeth "Break of dawn"

11. Le Sac, Dan / B Dolan / HowAboutBeth "Caretaker"

12. Le Sac, Dan "Beside"

13. Le Sac, Dan / Hefferan, Pete "Cherubs"

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Born Daniel Stephens, le Sac has always been an astute and often original craftsman. Heâ??s varied his output with Pip, too, laying down productions taking in lad-house, alt-rap and nightmarish soundscape characteristics. This debut solo albumâ??s opener, Long Night of Life, has the tone of a lost UNKLE track, with folker Merz providing a resolute vocal thatâ??s half-Springsteen, half-Yorke. Unexpected punch midway through pushes the songâ??s momentum on winningly, tinkling piano riffs joined by swift, windswept synths. Conversely, Play Along has an uncommon carnival-edged bounce more akin to a track from Nightmares on Waxâ??s thought soâ?¦ album, albeit with a harder electronic edge. Judging by her auspicious, caramel vocal on the track, up-and-coming singer Sarah Williams White will soon be familiar to a wider audience. For a further change of tack, anti-folk trooper Emmy the Great proffers a tantalising vocal that recalls Portisheadâ??s doom-chanteuse Beth Gibbons on the shivery, tormented Memorial. â??Love is on its knees, bury it at sea,â? she sings, as, somewhere, a wolf cowers. Itâ??s spooky in the best possible sense. Fiercer numbers shoot the album in different directions, but everything works. Regular tour support B. Dolan is on board for the jump-up party electro of Good Time Gang War, while poet and le Sac pal Joshua Idehen spits witty lines over Tuning. If that wasnâ??t enough, Break of Dawn is a mournful cover of Rhythm on the Looseâ??s oldschool house anthem (itself modelled on First Choiceâ??s disco classic Let Know Man Put Asunder), while the album ends with a poignant and percussively sensational version of Arab Strapâ??s Cherubs. To his immense credit le Sac has unleashed a wealth of first-rate ideas in the studio. Heâ??s utilised his guest vocalists to such a remarkably varied and interesting extent that Pipâ??s superlative way with a lyric is barely missed -

2012 debut solo album from one-half of Hip Hop duo Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip. Written, produced and with vocals from Dan himself, the album features collaborations with Emmy the Great, Merz, Sarah Williams White, B. Dolan, Joshua Idehen and Pete Hefferan. Taking a step sideways from the percussive atmospherics that were the backdrop to Scroobius Pip's words on their Top 40 albums Angles (2008) and the Logic of Chance (2010), Dan embraces everything from electro-pop to Psychedelia, all accompanied by an impressive array of vocal talent. Along the way he let's the spotlight fall on some wonderful, fresh new vocalists, as well as working with one of his musical heroes, the cult electronic folk singer Merz, who appears on the album's opening number, a pulsing house-pop gem.

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SBESTC54

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