Tremor

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Before Daniel Avery earned one-to-watch status with the leftfield techno of his 2013 debut <i>Drone Logic</i>, he was a teenager playing bass in rock and shoegaze band. But the London producer never really left them behind. Over the next decade, as he swapped his guitar for synths and DJ deck, he drew their distortions and droning soundscapes into his world. Though the club still thumps through <i>Tremor</i>, the noisy textures of his youth push to the surface, shrouding the record in a thick haze that feels both heavy and weightle. <i>Tremor</i>’s shape formed almost by accident. A chance run-in with Wolf Alice’s Ellie Rowsell led to a joint studio session; once she hit the mic, he knew he’d found its sound. That song, “Haze”—heaving rock with frayed edges—was one of its first finished track, along with “A Silent Shadow,” whose spectral acid creep dissolves into bright piano and sunrise synth. The juxtaposition of light and dark, control and chao, continues: the whispered intensity of “Greasy off the Racing Line,” swirling serenity swallowed by a fuzzed-out drone on “Until the Moon Starts Shaking.” .

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