Bleep

Possessing a collective CV of works for Portishead and Invada Records — after all, Fuzzface is better known as Geoff Barrow, and 7-Stu-7 is Portishead’s engineer and a long-time affiliate of Invada Records, as is Australian producer Katalyst — Quakers is the most unexpected of supergroup projects. Mining a distinct vein of LA hip-hop production, Quakers’ second LP II - The Next Wave is like a little black phonebook of contemporary superstars. Jeremiah Jae scatters faded bars across ‘This Station’, The Koreatown Oddity wax racial injustice on the military march of ‘Double Jointed’ and Sampa The Great lends a touch of class to the chiming tones of ‘Approach With Caution’.