Colin Walker

My first full-length album, acid is so passé is now up for pre-order on BandCamp.

Check it out here - there is one track available during the pre-order phase.

Full release, accompanied by a listening party, is next Friday, 28th November.

This has been in development for a while and I'm so pleased to be able to share it.

It is 9 tracks, over an hour of solid acid:

The album title is a play on the lyric "heroin is so passé" from "Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth" by The Dandy Warhols.

It's obviously a self-referential joke (the album is full of acid tracks) but it does have a point: the tracks on this album are not focused so much on what makes acid acid — the knob turning and tweaking. Instead, they were written to create grooves and vibes. More of a feeling — as outlined in "acid is more" a manifesto of sorts.

Eschewing the usual 808 & 909 beats, the album reaches into wider sonic territory while retaining a more minimal approach to track building. (It still includes plenty of 505, 606 & 707 samples.)

While there are 'four on the floor' beats they feel less rigid, more funky. But there are also unsettling moments like "no escape" which serves as an homage to the classic "Where's Your Child" by Bam Bam, and the slight dissonance of "the octet rule broken" and "empty orbital".

This is still, however, instantly recognisable as a randomelements release.