Review: UK producer JK Broadwick has slowly, and relatively quietly, built an impressive back catalogue as Pale Sketcher, a project that started life on the iconic and rightly revered US midwest label Ghostly International, home to the likes of Matthew Dear, Com Truise, Fort Romeau, Telefon Tel Aviv, and Patricia, to namedrop just a handful of geniuses on the roster.
Not a bad way to begin, and certainly indicative of just how much talent the man in question has, this outing on Give/Take reassuringly keeps up with early appearances. Electronica in the truest sense, there are references to a slew of feelings and genres here - downbeat, d&b, synth pop - all wrapped up in highly emotional atmosphere that oozes love, melancholy, hope, late nights, early mornings, and humanity.
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