LORN

1. Watchtower
2. Paradise Lost
3. Hollow Man
4. Powertrip
5. Forecast
6. Requiem

This release is EPIC! I know this EP had been already published on vinyl and in digital format at the beginning of this year, but I somehow missed it (like many many other quality staff out there in the infite depths of the data highway) and I have just found it on Lorn's bandcamp. It's on a constant repeat in my player for the last few days. It's haunting, tight, intense, heavy and yet full of space and absolutely one-of-the-kind deep melancholy mood. I love every single note and bleep on this record. Yeah, I know I sometimes tend to exaggarate, but believe me, Grief Machine EP will make you cry with emotions and joy simultaneously. Lorn is really in control of all things here merging ultra tight glitched structures with post hip-hop beats adding heavy dubstep-like bassline and weird drums rolling with the consistency of a German tank.

Fantastic Watchtower sets the pace of the entire release, moving through beautiful and eery Paradise Lost to mind-bending and epic Hollow Man - I listened to this track like 20 times in a row! Powertrip rolls on in a properly heavy way to meet head-on with Forecast where distorted and repetitive drums imprint the beats in the listener's mind with a force of a hammer. Requiem crowns the entire release with excellent glitch hop meets dubstep aeasthetics. The synth work is astounding and the bass vibrates in low frequencies putting all my neurons on full alert, and me likes such bass a lot, a lot!!I wish I found such precious music gems as Grief Machine EP each day.
Lorn - trained by the pain
Lorn has recently joined the mighty Brainfeeder. He's just posted a few beat-rap tracks (feat. Notorious B.I.G, Mobb Deep). Wake up, fucked up is my personal best in this set. Check it to see how diverse Lorn's sound is. His brrap edits push hip-hop genre to a totally different level and once again prove that glitch-hop (lazer bass, brap) is the genre of the future. As opposed to classic hip-hop, in the case of glitch-hop, acacapellas seem to be just a booster to amazing beats and bleeps churned out by the big community of fantastic producers hailing from US. Lorn is definitely in the fore-front of this movement.

Around the end of October, Lorn will release his full-length Nothing Else on Brainfeeder (also in vinyl format). I have no doubts it will be one of the albums of the year!
GRIEF MACHINE EP - Buy it for mere US$ 6 from bandcamp, a bargain price for such a beautiful music.