Atki2 - Guilty Pleasures

Single of the week at Boomkat

"Despite a ludicrous back-story involving otters and the Bronte Sisters, Atki2 (aka Sam Atkins) is as serious as Paxman when it comes to his beats - with this brand new 12" dubstepping it's way straight into your cranium. Undoubtedly attracting most attention due to it's jaw-breaking Pinch remix, 'Guilty Pleasures' is an EP overflowing with sonorous bass, chunky-knit beats and ruptured vocals - the wholesale effect being both aurally bewildering and finely detailed. Opening with the title track, Atki is up to his elbows in seething dubstep; as 'Guilty Pleasures' rattles around the more electronic end of the Grim spectrum and makes sterling use of Indi Kaur's sliced/diced Persian/hip-hop/folk vocals. Heavy without ruining your appetite, Atki2's original version is put on a bass-fed diet by the man Pinch - dredging the very depths of the dubstep canon for a shuddering low-end that compliments the spacious upper reaches (austere choirs, Kaur's drifting vocals) to perfection. It's a proper stonker. On the back, both 'Distillers Riddim' and 'Duty Paid' maintain the high water-mark set on the A - where Atki2 further develops his well honed production acumen with two tracks of smoldering digital bluntness. Killer."

Out now on Werk Discs.