Published
Mon, Oct 12, 2009, 13:00
- Kevin Martin (AKA The Bug) will team up again with spoken word artist Roger Robinson for their debut album in November.
Roger Robinson and The Bug will release their debut King Midas Sound album next month.
Robinson has previously worked with musicians, albeit in a strictly spoken role, but this collaboration with Kevin is the first time that he has tested out his tense falsetto vocal. Using Martin's claustrophobic electronic dub tracks as his backing, Robinson ruminates on themes of love, loss and life, flitting between intense vocal performances such as "Earth A Kill Ya" and other more soulful cuts. Title track "Waiting For You" is one of these tracks, taking the lovers rock style and stripping it to its bare bones, and there's plenty to appeal to more open-minded reggae aficionados throughout the record. "Meltdown" (from the recent 5 Years Of Hyperdub CD) and album opener "Cool Out" are the only tracks to have been previously released, so Hyperdub fans should look forward to eleven fresh takes on the King Midas Sound template once it hits shops in November.
Tracklist
01. Cool Out
02. Waiting For You
03. One Thing
04. Earth a Kill Ya
05. Dahlin
06. Meltdown
07. I Man
08. Blue
09. Goodbye Girl
10. Lost
11. Sometimes
12. Outer Space
13. Miles & Miles
Hyperdub will release King Midas Sound's Waiting For You on November 9th, 2009.