It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Pariah solo.
The London-based producer pushes a spectral, often greyscale take on UK house. If you think that makes him sound like yet another Burial sound-alike then think again: Burial’s work is a pronounced influence on Pariah’s music by his own admission, but there’s a thousand times more power and originality to Pariah than the thousand Burial clones pushing washed-out garage.
Over the last year, in fact, techno’s become a far more obvious part of Pariah’s make-up. He now makes up one half of Karenn alongside Blawan, producing savage 4/4, and his label She Works the Long Nights recently announced a single by Irish techno stalwart Sunil Sharpe.
It’s been known for a while that Pariah has a full-length album on the way for R&S, and we’ve heard murmurings of some particularly interesting vocal collaborations for it. For now, fans will have to make do with a new three-track EP for the label. That’s the artwork on the right, and the tracklist follows:
RS1207: Pariah 1. Rift 2. Signal Loss 3. Among those Metal Trees