Finest Hour

Albums Heard in 2012 (181 items)
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Leeds-based seven piece Submotion Orchestra proudly present their debut album 'Finest Hour' on Exceptional Blue Records. Bewitchingly beautiful, perfectly crafted and conveying the melancholy menace of what Marvin Gaye called 'Inner City Blues', this is at once classic and utterly current. Album opener 'Angel Eyes' sets the tone as warm, transporting sounds unfurl spaciously, before the bass not so much drops, as slides in effortlessly at just the right moment. The album's first single 'All Yours' demonstrates what can be achieved when the basic paradigm of dubstep is modified and morphed,