i'm talking about the design of the sonics rather than the notion of something cinematic, as i explained above, they have a sense of drama and timing that fits in with the narrative theme of the songs, accentuates them, it's very perceptively produced like that, like he's been listening to the way sound is used in films rather than the way soundtrack themes have been used in films.
It only has one track with hip hoppy drums, it has no dense jazzy samples which are the things that for me are what trip hop is really or was.
its all claustrophobic synths and fx's, techno sounds and a reggaeish lilt and fuck off dubby b lines with love songs, so yeah trip hop is a bit of a shit comparison and not really 'obvious' to my ears, the only similarity is the speed but you can say that about alot of other music, it's obviously informed by dubstep but it's not dubstep.
It's very much a kevin martin record, but its more musical than before perhaps.
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