Bleep

Exodus Records offer up a steamy, atmospheric jazz cut from a young auteur of the form. With Dark Matter, London’s most bloody-minded young producer Moses Boyd weaves indelibly classy brass and woodwind with grime and UK underground threads for an indelibly bombastic breakthrough work, complete with an overriding spirit of magpie-like selectivity. The airy shape of ‘Stranger Than Fiction’ materialises like an enrobed figure in fog, breaking out into an irresistible groove, heavy yet light. ‘Shades of You’ showcases Boyd’s weighty black book, enlisting the searching vocal of Poppy Ajudha amid hip hop rhythms, while ‘Only You’ finds the project going full free improv.