Motions vinyl

This month sees Wheel & Deal regular LX One make good on the promise shown over five years of 12" output with his debut album Motions. To complement it, N-Type's label are splitting up the cuts into two four-track 12" samplers with the first arriving before the album proper! "Watchers" sets the tone here with some abstract bassline design lending a degree of unpredictability around a finely crafted rhythmic base, whilst the taut "Cloud City" is a growling heavy stepper in the fashion we've come to expect from LX One. Frisco lends some vocal menace to "Roll Out" whilst "Oddity" ends this sampler on an atmospheric, delay heavy note. The full LP should be great on the evidence here.