Iceboy Violet & Nueen – “You Said You’d Hold My Hand Through The Fire” (Released 7th June 2024)

Description

//Hyperdub//

£21.99 – 1xLP

This collaboration between Spanish producer Nueen and Manc vocalist / rapper Iceboy Violet – who has previously sprinkled their magic dust across Hyperdub releases from aya and Loraine James – traces the arc of a four year relationship, memorialising its highs and documenting its lows, processing, reflecting, and then ending with the ecstatic spark of new love. It’s a magical, intimate and heartfelt album, sometimes anguished but often enchanting. Nueen’s music responds with foggy, but richly detailed, production. Smudgy drill-laced beats contrast with curdled, spiralling chords, at times drawing out a malevolent ambience. ‘You Said You’d Hold My Hand Through The Fire’ is an immensely affecting and lucid album, powerfully wrought, ultimately hopeful.

Tracklisting:

1. Heartbreak of a broken stitch (ft Harriet Morley)
2. sm_fid
3. Everything ends with an inhale
4. Cement skin
5. Pixel petals
6. Slammd (interlude)
7. Closer
8. Terrence’s time bomb
9. Fragmentary (eraser)
10. Inside my head (interlude)
11. Still (ft dawuna)
12. Fawning (interlude)
13. Kiss me again (6am in Helsinki) (ft Bennettiscoming)