Review: Pursuit Grooves - Wild Art Forestry
Brooklynite Pursuit Grooves’ Wild Art Forestry LP is a mixed bag of askew grooves, spacey synths and squelchy basslines, fused over fifteen instrumental tracks of MPC-driven electro hip-hop. The syncopated beats and tempered bass of cuts like ‘Limelight’ and ‘Too Much Time’ might not be out of place in Dilla’s musical kitchen, but the depth and experimentation present throughout tell us this lady isn’t here simply to emulate. More tracks are sparse and ambient, reminiscent at times of a Japanese video-game score, as on ‘I Can C Y’ and ‘Meets the Eye’. The unlikely nu-soul of closing track ‘Pressure’ is the surprise hit of the album. An emotive piano motif is diced and re-created over a crushing groove, on which Pursuit unleashes a startling vocal dexterity, delivering sweet moaning melodies and conscious rapped poetry. Genuinely gifted female producers are rare in hip-hop, but Pursuit Grooves might be about to change that. Fans of Flying Lotus and Mike Slott will be instantly converted.
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Pursuit Grooves plays Ballers’ Social Club alongside Onra, at The Ivy in Glasgow on 25 Oct.
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