Squarepusher - Dostrotime Squarepusher

Released: 08/03/24

Updating my running playlist this last week, I considered adding my favourite current song Wendorlan', from Squarepusher's frankly bananas new album Dostrotime,but given that I knew such a high-intensity track would compel me to attempt a potentially heart-attack inducing 20-minute 5K, I thought better of it. For where the pioneering Essex-born producer's last LP, 2020's Be Up a Hello, was all cheeky Technicolordrill 'n' bass (albeit still probably not advisable to run to), Dostrotimecontains some of Squarepusher's “ AKA Tom Jenkinson “ most brutal, BPMs-off-the-chart acid-inflected techno to date. To my mind, only Richard D. James and Aaron Funk (AKA Venetian Snares) can compete with the Squarepusher catalogue for hyper-rhythmical complexity combined with sheer head-melting production skills, and with the remarkable Dostrotime, Jenkinson has upped the ante considerably. It's batshit glorious.