Dense & Pika – Colour Burn [BMG]

As Dense & Pika, Alex Jones and Chris Spero have garnered an enviable reputation for making devastating club ordnance that finds the sweet spot between dark, mysterious house and roaring, brawny techno. With over a decade of material under their belt, Jones and Spero release their first studio length debut album, ‘Colour Burn’ via BMG.

‘Colour Burn’ is a 13-track composition crossing through downtempo house and electronica, built as a conceptual sonic representation of the pair’s live audio and visual set up. The album is a step away from harder and faster material and a move towards a more leftfield sonic trajectory, featuring a handful of impressive heavyweight features of Jones & Spero’s musical heroes who have informed the Dense & Pika output.

Standout track ‘Hidden’ features the drums of Sepultura’s legendary metal icon Igor Cavalera resulting in a fabulous frenzy of percussion and driving rhythm. The equally unforgettable ‘Jante’ features dark and dubby sonics, punctured with anxious ascending and descending synths primed to cause an altered state of mind. ‘Sofia’ moves into a harder-hitting realm with relentless distortion, glitchy robotic injections and eery enigmatic vocals.