Some tracks on here have been out there for almost two years now in the black market

Listening to the records on my wall is a great track, proper old skool jungle vibes and a blissed out riff.

20,000 haha come on please dont perpetuate such absurd statements. thats 20 tunes a day , every day for 3 years uhmmmm......

in any case looking forward to the new album!
really liked dutch flowers off his first release

A special RA podcast with him? Would be great!

this album is sick
back to making music
nice one

Hope its better than the first.

personally i cant stand dubstep these days
it seems every producer with a certain number of exceptions is using the same vsts and has the same structure to every song...
that being said i was ready to hate this album..thinking it was gonna go the rusko route
however i was quite surprised how interesting it sounds...not dubsteppy which is a relief
ive seen him a number of times and hes very talented

I absolutely, unequivocally hated this album. I've liked most of his songs in the past, but there's not one song I would like to hear again on this album. The only one being close was '8 bit baby', which I heard one and a half times. Maybe it's just me, but the midrange wobbles mixed with melancholy chords and atmosphere just doesn't work. Infact it sounds worse than your standard wub wub track, which at least isn't trying to be anything more than it is.

je ne l'ai pas encore mais je crois qu'il sera meilleur que son premier album;

very good music!!!!

I think is a good album .... maybe some future stuff right here ... but to be honest i dont feel any master piece in whole album .
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this album will crossover - just you watch

This album doesn't quite work as a crossover, I think: too vague in its ideas to make it catchy. I find it interesting, an album to analyze quietly to see where its strengths are. And that's not something that will work as a crossover, I think.

BTW: 'dewy-eyed drum & bassers Instra:mental and D-Bridge.'. I think both producers have been doing lots of (wonderful) varied things these years to categorize them in just that supposedly sharp way.

The guy can't win. Either people will enjoy the record or they will sit around whining about how dubstep 'used to be'. I'm almost sick to death of music in general due to its fans. Especially dubstep fans. It's aggravating always hearing the same tired 'i used to like dubstep but it's different nowadays' or 'it all sounds the same now'. Listen, people, if it all sounded the same, but with a sound that YOU like, you'd have no problem with it all sounding the same. In other words, just learn to accept that this is what music does. For awhile, everyone wanted to sound like Hank Williams. Then everyone wanted to sound like Eddie Cochran. Then Elvis, the Beatles, and I could keep on going here, but hopefully you get the idea. This is how music actually progresses,i.e. they perfect a style and then overdo it, so they then move on and start creating something new. Please, please try to understand that and quit complaining about how dubstep is now or how it used to be. It's getting annoying, what with so many people trying make sure people understand that they listened to dubstep before it became popular. Suuuuure you did. The funny thing is that I couldn't care less when anyone started listening. you either like it or you don't. Not difficult tounderstand that concept, so get over yourselves already!

all i can really say is "boring", ruskos album was just "boring" as hell too, it seems like these cats dont even care about taking the genre further. this is exactly how a genre dies, but then again i imagine something hybrid will come out of it like- minimal dubstep house.
come on already, i cant even believe dubstep received the attention it did to this point, just outlines how little original is actually happening in the world of music.
oh dire times, dire times indeed.

Amen to that!

Good to see some objective reviews about SKREAM , perhaps now he can learn to make better music

I've listened to most of the album now and I might think it's a lot better than his debut. It's nice to see that he moved away from the obvious FL-tunes that he and Benga produced some years ago and produced something more professional sounding.

I'm also very glad that Skream didn't get as cheesy as Rusko did on this release, though some might think it's still too much.

Dubstep is such a broad genre nowadays that you just have to accept that you can't love it all, like back then when it was all underground.

skream needs to go back to his old style..

I get where you're coming from, but you know how the guy can win? By making good music. I don't know if you were referring to me, or just people in general, but I personally don't give a shit about what "dubstep sounded like" or "should sound like", because there is no "signature dubstep" sound anymore. And I'm glad for that. Some of the best - Martyn, 2562, James Blake, Untold, Mala etc. - sound nothing like each other.

You know why people didn't complain about 2562's "Unbalance" which was quite a change from his excellent first album Aerial? Because it was great music. Simple as that. I'm aware this is a subjective opinion, but Outside The Box is not good music and not "progression" of any kind. Of course Skream is free to make the music he wants to. The guy is young and ambitious, and there's no way I, or anyone else, can begrudge him for making the kind of music he wants to. It doesn't however mean we have to like it.

Also, I guess I've been lucky in that I haven't heard or read too many "I loved dubstep before it became popular" opinions. I know how annoying that can be, and almost every single breakout genre/artist has those people. By the way, I loved the Beatles before Paul McCartney was born.

Funklestiltskin, the difference here is that Skream was, well, maybe not one of the founders of dubstep but one of those that have been in dubstep for many years, so people expected some "old style", as already commented. I've reciently listened to his first album, and it sounds surprisingly dub (irony!) to me, so I don't know exactly what people are asking for when mentioning that sound. Anyway, 2562, Martyn and such have recieved complains of not being dubstep, as it happened with Joy Orbison and many more, which has convinced me of the fact that dubstep, simply, doesn't exist.

And I've listened to "Outside the box" a bit more, and now it's growing on me very fast. Yes, again the "I wish I was a clubber back then" kind of fake nostalgic attitude - a trend in 2010? - but the songs are catchy and well produced. I still don't see the crossover hit there, though.

finally is the uplifter track.best.

As I mentioned Risingson, I'm (fortunately) not aware of the type of people you mention. My judgement was solely based on this album alone, and not on any preconceived notions I had on what I wanted it to sound like. I've anyway never been a big fan of his earlier stuff (always preferred Vex'd and Benga), so I'm not looking at this in the context you mention. And frankly, whoever these people you mention are, if they're complaining about 2562 and Martyn, then I have no hope for them.

i can definitely hear some w.wickham influences in here. big up the swimming baths massive ;-)

the debut album was souch more impressing.. i got mixed feeling for this one, part of me hates it and the other part loves it... a bit weird.. O_0