Electronic music veteran Squarepusher has announced details of his first album for almost five years, plus brand new music.
The producer, real name Tom Jenkinson, will release ‘Be Up A Hello’ on January 31 via Warp Records, his first studio album since 2015’s ‘Damogen Futures.
For the new album, Squarepusher “returned to using a bewildering array of vintage analogue and digital hardware, the same equipment that first helped him develop his sound in the early ’90s.”
The album’s full tracklisting is as follows:
- Oberlove
- Hitsonu
- Nervelevers
- Speedcrank
- Detroit People Mover
- Vortrack
- Terminal Slam
- Merkrev Bass
- 80 Ondula
Squarepusher has shared the first taste of the album, ‘Vortrack’, which you can take a listen to below. In addition, he’s also put out the ‘Fracture Remix’ of the track.
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Squarepusher has released new material in the years since his last studio album. In 2016 he dropped anti-Brexit track ‘MIDI sans Frontières’.
In an accompanying essay, Squarepusher wrote: “This piece of music was written in the aftermath of the referendum and I present it as the basis of an internationalist collaboration with sound makers irrespective of what kind of music they make, where they live, their background, their age -all are invited to participate.”
Last year, he provided an ambient soundtrack for children’s TV channel CBeebies. His music was used for a show called Daydreams, narrated by Olivia Colman.