Nicky Soft Touch - Lonely City Cuts LP [full colour sleeve]

Time Is Now

£24.90

Format: 2 x 12" Vinyl
Catalogue No.: TINLP002
Release Date: 09 Dec 2022
Genre: Breaks

Tracklisting
A1 Nicky Soft Touch - Looking For Love (Intro)
A2 Nicky Soft Touch - I Need To Know This
A3 Nicky Soft Touch - Lonely City Cut 2
B1 Nicky Soft Touch - Lonely City Cut 4
B2 Nicky Soft Touch - Lonely City Cut 3
B3 Nicky Soft Touch - Lonely City Cut 1
C1 Nicky Soft Touch - Seven Smoking Areas
C2 Nicky Soft Touch - We Absolutely Love This Music
C3 Nicky Soft Touch - Lost In A Sea Of Rolling Eyes
D1 Nicky Soft Touch - Lonely City Interlude
D2 Nicky Soft Touch - They Held Each other While The Ceiling Dripped
D3 Nicky Soft Touch - It Bothers Me Everyday
D4 Nicky Soft Touch - Then There Was Mass Chanting

Bristol don Nicky Soft Touch makes his eagerly awaited return with the follow up to his last TIN release, Lonely City Sampler. Set for release almost exactly one year on, Lonely City Cuts sees Soft Touch continue in his deft explorations of sampling, chopping and rearranging beats using cuts from helter skelter and sidewinder tapes. Much like his previous release, as well as the self-released projects he's shared in the meantime, the LP is centred around a DIY aesthetic, making intimacy and introspection two of its defining features.

Conceived during a stint living in London, the series is imbued with a sense of place. Delivered via raw production techniques, voice recordings and off-kilter, broken garage beats, this positions the release amongst the moody, urban landscapes which provide the backdrop for Burial and Actress' music. On Volume One, this sounds like narling basslines that ricochet around swung percussion, and plaintive ambience that immerses you in its shadowy worlds. On Volume Two, like hip hop interludes, deep house grooves and hyper referential skits.