Zomby / Ultra
Album: Ultra   Collection:General
Artist:Zomby   Added:Feb 2017
Label:Hyperdub  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2017-03-15 Pull Date: 2017-05-17 Charts: Electronic
Week Ending: May 7 Apr 30 Apr 23 Apr 16 Apr 9 Mar 26 Mar 19
Airplays: 1 1 1 2 1 1 2

Recent Airplay
1. May 27, 2017: Ode to Year Two
Glass
4. Apr 20, 2017: I Like to Dance: Shake Off Your Pants
Glass
2. May 04, 2017: I Like to Dance: Shake Off Your Pants
Quandry (Feat. Darkstar)
5. Apr 13, 2017: I Like to Dance: Shake Off Your Pants
I
3. Apr 27, 2017: I Like to Dance: Shake Off Your Pants
Quandry (Feat. Darkstar)
6. Apr 11, 2017: All Passion No Technique
Sweetz (Feat. Burial)

Album Review
Shay Z
Reviewed 2017-03-05
A multi-faceted, electronic music outing from UK producer Zomby. A minimalist experimentalist at heart, Zomby rarely pursues fully fleshed out songs. He follows an individual idea for the course of a track and then apparently drops it for the rest of the album. These chopped, creaking, cranky tunes vary from distorted R&B to low-fi jungle to vaporwavey bliss. A general icy feeling abounds.
Find what you like and play it!
Genre: Post-dubstep Jungle, ‘Electronic’, Grime, eskibeat
RIYL: Burial, Ital Tek, Demdike Stare, Andy Stott
Favorite Tracks: 3, 6, 7 (FCC), 9, 12
FCCs: Track 7
Reflection (4:59) - gun shots, twinkling blips, the scene is set
Swaggering bravado of instrumental with spacey spoken sample
Burst (2:03) - consistently avoids a consistent beat
Fly 2 (5:28)* - Rhythmic chopped vocals with buzzing breathing creating awesome sound scapes, verges on an almost danceable beat. Slow down at 2:25 kinda annoying
E.S.P. (3:00) - dark strings, shaky percussion
I (2:03) - “I” sample, cool drum line, nice idea
Glass (4:29)** - dancey bass line, clapping percussion, really hits its stride
Sweetz (6:58)* - (FCC Fuck throughout) Unfortunately no way of cleaning this, great influence of Burial on this pondering track
Her (4:52) - spacey, cool synth builds
Quandary (4:20)* - Nice! Plucky, bouncy, oooo, really strong kick and loop at 2:15
Freeze (2:17) - song name solid descriptor, icy synths, shattered beats
Yeti (2:18) - thematically similar to previous track, shards of icy computer waste
S.D.Y.F (5:33)* - Love the percussion on this, some great jungle with spacey synths
Thaw (3:57) - warm thawing of the ice? Drumless spacey
Tenkyuu (3:39) - rain with ghostly close, echoing, conveying of large cavernous spaces

Track Listing
1. Reflection   7. Sweetz (Feat. Burial)
2. Burst   8. Her
3. Fly 2 (Feat. Banshee)   9. Quandry (Feat. Darkstar)
4. E.S.P.   10. Freeze
5. I   11. Yeti
6. Glass   12. S.D.Y.F. (Feat. Rezzett)
  13. Thaw