Yally - Dread Risk / U-Eff-O

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  • Joe Andrews and Tom Halstead's Yally project feels like an opportunity to let off steam after their second Raime album, Tooth. Introduced through the Boomkat Editions sub-label BK12X12 in late 2016, Yally is a more brutal use of Andrews and Halstead's encyclopaedic knowledge of garage, grime and jungle than the subtler Raime. Oscar Powell, who runs Diagonal with Jaime Williams, has said drum & bass was his first real musical love, so it's little surprise Yally's latest record lands on the label. The lead track, "Dread Risk," is allegedly based around samples from a discarded rework of Source Direct. Recycled into a full-blown Yally production, "Dread Risk" is chilling and stripped-back. "U-Eff-O" finds Andrews and Halstead leaning on early grime for inspiration, throwing their weight behind monumental sub-bass frequencies. Over these, a tense interplay between sparse rhythms, B-movie synth lines and vocal samples unravels. "U-Eff-O" is exquisitely produced, right down to the way oddball samples land perfectly in its milliseconds of silence.
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      A Dread Risk B U-Eff-O
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