nineteen97 impresses again with new single 'spareno1'

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nineteen97 impresses again with new single 'spareno1'

As I hit play on the latest nineteen97 single, I’m met with a wall of textured melancholy seemingly coded in the 2-step sub-genre popularised by a certain Burial. The synth pads are enveloped in a spectral reverb that refuses to retreat into itself as it marches off into a vague distance. As the rolling drums and hyperactive percussion stampede underneath this grey and lo-fi soundscape, Brumtown’s latest sun gives us a dose of defiance that is a…