Two Silhouettes

Two Silhouettes is from South London, part of The Fearless Few Collective (Margate based electronic producers and record label). Otherwise known as Samuel Holloway, Two Silhouettes has a handful of albums behind him. The latest came out earlier this month, Flying Dream, fourteen slices of modern electronic music spanning ambient, UK garage, experimental electronica, sampledelica, bass culture and funk. It's a lot of fun, a little frazzled in places, chirpy and off kilter in others, a little hyperactive too. The tracks rattle by, some under three minutes long, nothing outstaying its welcome, ideas bursting out all over. 

On Hajime bass bumps around and melodies skitter to and fro as a fragments of vocals flit in and out. Gaslight is slowed down, more voice samples and then an isolated bassline. Beowolf, with a vocal from Dexter Selboy, stutters in from the shadows, Dexter declaring 'I'm fucking Beowolf mate'. By The Palm Tree is led by a funky guitar part, more synth burps and bleeps and a shout of 'hey!', a wonky collision of dancefloor and electronic funk. There is more UK Garage sound on Jetpack and then the loopy, brilliant Little House On The Prairie sampling Laura Ingalls. Dexter Selboy returns to the mic on Daps, followed by Buy Me Flowers, a two minute blast of voice and bass with occasional barrel house piano. Flying Dream finishes with the semi- lucid dream state song Secret Room, an accordion/ synth, tappety tap drum and Samuel singing of finding the secret room in the title. Flying Dream is at Bandcamp. 

On his previous Two Silhouettes album, 2022's Z- Sides, there's a similar range of songs, styles and approaches, thirteen songs/ tracks- Raver is all kick drum and hand claps with a slew of different voices, intoning various rave related phrases- 'raver', 'rinse it', 'I'm raving'- as the synths and keys build. Seriously good. Po' Boys starts out sparse and becomes increasingly hectic and frenetic. I could go on- there are more tracks, ideas, sounds, and samples, with imagination and humour to spare and I genuinely don't think you'll have much in your vast collection of music that sounds much like it. Z-Sides is here.