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Artist: Zomby
\nAlbum: With Love
\nReleased: June 17, 2013<\/p>\n

If you follow Zomby<\/a> via the interwebs and are familiar with his notorious online persona, his latest effort, “With Love,”<\/strong> will strike you in much the same way: sleek, mysterious, alluring, but hard to stay in tune with. <\/p>\n

It is his most substantial release to date. It at first seems to pick up where his funereal 2011 album, Dedication<\/a>, left off, but proceeds down an even darker and fragmented path. In essence, it is a double-disc of lonely and darkly post-industrial computer tunes. If computers had emotions, this is the blues they’d sing.<\/p>\n

While with this project, he’s established perhaps his most cohesive core sound palette \u2013 soprano-pitched tremolos, tinny drums and gloomy, ominous strings \u2013 it’s also his most puzzling compilation. A majority of the tracks are two and a half minutes or less and end as abruptly as they begin. Throughout Disc 1, he schizophrenically shifts from neo-gothic, 8-bit chiptune (“As Darkness Falls”<\/em>), to computer-coated jungle breakbeat (“Overdose”<\/em>), to his signature style of garage-esque UK Eski grime (“Pray for Me”<\/em>). But subtly, the lack of cohesion between the movements of each track gets overcast by their similarity in sound. It’s a strange phenomenon. Technically, it’s an all over the place listen, but sonically, much of the songs don’t sound too different. They’re all draped in the same cloak of melancholy. <\/p>\n