- The Evaporate EP, which launches Rabit's Halcyon Veil label, comes from South West Londoner Myth. The producer has approached grime from all sorts of angles in his young career (he briefly offered an 83-track download when this EP was announced), and the results have generally been striking but scrappy. Myth's debut proper tidies up the edges of his sound, focusing on his talent for melancholic tunes rendered in cool synth tones. Paired with a rhythmic approach that distills UK dance patterns into toy-like loops, the results sound uncannily like Zomby circa "Natalia's Song." Myth drills deep into this sound, releasing a seven-track study with plenty of compelling moments.
The EP's crisp side-sticks, finger clicks and shakers never lose their composure. Hints of aggression, like the snare drills in "Semagi," are softened with a cathedral's worth of reverb. Only on "Luminous" do things get a little maudlin, and by the EP's latter half Myth has hit a comfortable stride. The bongo-led "Seven," and "Skyz," whose oval synths skip gently across the beat, are both excellent. As with Zomby at his best, these are simple, compact tracks with just the right amount of romance in their DNA.
TracklistA1 Lonely
A2 Luminous
A3 Phoenix
B1 Semagi
B2 Skyz
B3 Seven
B4 Evaporate