Edinburgh’s Steven Shade explores Concreté Misery.
Steven Shade has spent years at the “experimental fringes of the Scottish Rock scene,” which may make Glasgow dance hub LuckyMe a strange home for his first album as Sevendeaths.
Yet Concreté Misery — which is described as “deep, evolving programmed synth work,” with none of Shade’s usual guitars or pedals — fits in with the synthscape futurism of label regulars Rustie, Hudson Mohawke, and S-Type. In fact, album opener ‘Petrograde’ has appeared in a mix by Rustie, and ‘All Night Graves’ closed out Eclair Fifi’s stellar FACT Mix.
Stream the paradoxically foreboding yet hopeful ‘All Night Graves’ below; the Concreté Misery tracklist follows. The album is due out tomorrow (January 16) via LuckyMe; it managed to make it into the list of 2014 albums we give a shit about.
01 – Petrograde
02 – And Another Another
03 – All Night Graves
04 – Concreté Misery
05 – Ghostache
06 – In The Room
