Essential: Peverelist's new album 'Tesselations'

Tom Ford's career has seen him weave through the sounds of jungle, dubstep and techno, picking up elements from each and assimilating those morsels into whatever project he attempts next. 'Tesselations' is his third LP as Peverelist and it sees the Bristol-based artist inhabiting a musical world where restraint is as important as bone-crushing sub bass. It's an album that is equal parts sober, equal parts unhinged.

Pev's first appearance came in the latter half of the noughties with the release of tracks like 'Erstwhile Rhythm' and 'Roll With The Punches' - dubstep rollers laced with a junglist sound palette. That was over 10 years ago, and whilst Peverelist has progressed his sound, on 'Tesselations' you can still hear a tendency towards the swinging rhythms of breakneck speed jungle. But throughout the album, those unstable junglist elements in his music are kept restrained.

'Under Clearing Skies' straddles grime and trance, whilst 'Further Inland' sticks to the dubstep-techno hybrid sound Pev crafted as part of Livity Sound alongside Kowton and Asusu. The genres Pev explores on 'Tesselations' tend towards the tough and vigourous, but unlike label-mate Kowton, Pev leans towards tightly controlled emotion, hanging poised over a drop that never comes.

Listen to 'Tesselations' in full below.

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