Past Muso Club Recommendation

Pinch & Shackleton - Pinch & Shackleton

When Burial was defining what intelligent, studio based Dubstep is all about circa 2006, these two producers were putting their own stamp on the genre. Although not as groundbreaking, their work stands as excellent exemplars of an exciting current of noughties underground electronic music. Paired together on their self-titled release I'm surprised to have not seen this on any best of lists for 2011. Whilst hardly being dubstep, this is a worthy statement of bass music in a new decade. It is also a pretty exhilarating listen!

Past Muso Club Recommendation

Exuma - Exuma I

In my continual trawl through the world of alternative folk I am constantly seeking out the holy grail of experimental quality to match the mighty Comus. I think, and this is brave, Exuma is some way on the way to achieving this goal. Inspired and thematically linked to Voodoo Caribbean religion (Obeah), this feels both spiritually authentic and reverential. It's exotic nature never feels contrived nor does it feel inaccessibly alien. Intriguing, catchy, bizarre and thoroughly gripping.