Dropbar (Single) by Kelvin T

'Dropbar' is the first single from Kelvin T's forthcoming LP 'Unlock Voice', which will release on 9th November via Absurd TRAX.

Kelvin T’s last recording, the 'Sedative' EP, was about self-discovery and finding his own voice. Having accomplished that, he was compelled to raise a different question altogether: "Is it possible to ‘train’...a synthetic sound to possess a voice and sing on its own?"

In 'Unlock Voice', the first full length album from Kelvin T, he avoids the lyrical mode- instead of treating sound as a means to communicate his own feelings, he wants to fashion a key to ‘unlock’ the expressive potentiality of each sound, each being an entity, a singularity in its own right. The opening track ‘Dropbar’, for instance, sees Kelvin fantasizing about what it would be like for kick drums to punch him successively in the stomach, all while a synthesizer melody coaxes him into submission. In ‘Escaped’, on the other hand, a bleeding synth groans pleadingly at the listener, making for an unsettling experience. The result of Kelvin’s latest experiments in sonic necromancy is a visceral, tactile, kinetic exercise, assaulting the nervous system like rave music from some abyssal cellar.

“Maybe, if there’s a soul locked inside a sound, can I teach the synths and the drums to scream at me and cry through the speakers? If synthesizers and samplers (no matter whether they are hardware or software) can talk, would they scream at their masters or sing while crying?”

Album release date:
9 November 2018

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