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Album Reviews
Album Review: Kromestar – My Sound (Dubstar)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 1 December 2008
Kromestar has created a rather easy way into dubstep with this album. It does not really live up to the central protagonists and innovators of the genre, but will appeal to the casual fan or serious gormandiser, in the sense that it is accessible whilst also being a passable album. Nevertheless, ‘My Sound’ is not something to get excited about. It is so laid back it is practically perpendicular to the ground, avoiding the sense of fear and bowl crunching bass that Digital Mystiks or Kode 9 thrust into your ears. Although, he shares those outfits’ approach to spelling, ‘My Sound’ is most definitely background music. A couple of tracks stand out from the album though. The title track is a pleasant mix of the past and future of dub. Weird wobbly dubstep bass on a late 1970s dub backbeat, over vocals that could have been sampled from a soundclash ready cut. ‘The Truth’ is also quite nice with real (as opposed to synthesised – yes musicologists that is a contested distinction, calm down) instruments, rubbing up with radar bleeps, organ buzz and what sounds like a world-weary Jamaican guy periodically intoning ‘the truth’ hopeful/ominously. It ebbs and rattles along quite nicely. Yeah, pretty standard, I hear you say. However, at no point did this album piss me off. It has an interesting array of textures that interplay subtly together and would go well after a big night out at about four in the morning. Just don’t expect it to grab you by the throat. PG
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