SBTRKT - The Rat Road 2xLP (Silver Vinyl)

Label: Save Yourself

Speaking about his forthcoming LP, Aaron Jerome says: “This album has been my most sonically ambitious record to create – following my own musical path – which isn’t based on others’ perceptions of what SBTRKT should be.

“‘The Rat Road’ title is a play on the concept of ‘the rat race’. It’s partly based on my own challenging experiences within the music industry and life generally – though I realised the idea is not isolated from a much wider feeling of exhaustion – definitely true here in the UK with little sense of respite from ever increasing costs/decreasing opportunity/and a bold divide-and-conquer mentality.

“There is the juxtaposition in the record between determination and hopelessness.”

It has felt like forever since we last had a full length LP from SBTRKT, the producer hasn’t released an ‘album’ since 2014’s Wonder Where We Land so it’s not easy to anticipate exactly what The Rat Road is going to sound like going in. As it stands it is worth the wait.