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CMU Approved
Approved: Alias – Crimson Across It (feat Doseone)
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 18 June 2014
Anticon co-founder Alias returns with new album ‘Pitch Black Prism’ next week, the follow-up to 2011’s ‘Fever Dream’.
Arriving at the height of summer, the LP is nonetheless described as a “winter record” by the label, and “nocturnal” by Alias himself. “The image that stuck in my head for its tone was a figure illuminated just beyond the range of complete darkness”, he says. “I worked on it mostly it night, so it definitely has more of a nocturnal feel than any of my previous albums”.
Having not heard anything of the album beyond ‘Crimson Across It’, I can’t say how that all turned out. But that one track does bristle with a night time air. One of only two tracks on ‘Pitch Black Prism’ to feature guest vocals, it sees Alias team up with fellow Anticon stalwart Doseone, who goes about as dark as he can over a beat that warps and shifts under a streetlight glow.
Have a listen here: