Skinny Pelembe
Skinny Pelembe is a multi-talented artist, born in Johannesburg and raised in Doncaster. First debuting in 2017, he’s honed a distinctive musical style; memories and observations are weaved together, sun-dazzled California folk diced with the murkier corners of the UK dance lineage. He celebrates flawed, post-recession Britain, exalting the UK in all of its imperfect, contradictory realities. Releasing debut album Dreaming Is Dead Now in May 2019, he’s been tipped by The Observer, The Quietus and Huck. Singles I Just Wanna Be Your Prisoner and Spit/Swallow were both picked for BBC 6 Music’s A-List. He sold out a headline UK tour last year, was booked for 6 Music’s 2018 showcase at The Great Escape, and has supported Nightmares on Wax and Maribou State. His track Should You Go, for instance, first self-released on his 2017 Seven Year Curse EP, was included on Gilles Peterson’s iconic Brownswood Bubblers series. It also sparked connections with other artists on the label Future Bubblers, such as Yazmin Lacey, who had been picked for the scheme in the previous year. The pair performed together at the 2018 edition of Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide Awards, and Lacey featured on Skinny’s Sleep More, Make More Friends EP later that year. His music has spurred new connections and garnered him attention from artists he’s long admired, such as legendary producer and label boss James Lavelle (Mo’Wax), who tapped him up earlier this year, asking him to open for UNKLE at the Royal Festival Hall. The album is co-produced by Malcolm Catto (The Heliocentrics), and the producer’s connection to the LA hip-hop world saw Skinny's musical hero and iconic beatmaker Madlib drop by the studio during sessions for the record, while on the single Dreaming Is Dead Now, Skinny worked with a duo of foundational drum & bass producers – working under the covert alias of The Bleeding Edge – who he’s long looked up to. His varied approach to his influences started early on. His two older brothers were heavily into hip-hop, while he would also absorb the West Coast folk and country music played by his dad. The references for the artwork for Dreaming Is Dead Now speak to the diverse palette of influences which have always underlaid his approach, nodding to two of his favourite albums, Alice Coltrane’s Journey to Satchidananda and The White Stripes’ White Blood Cells. The album sees all of these different markers melded into something altogether new. Bright stitches of colour are threaded through dark-hued, heavyweight material, luminous guitar riffs slicing through tough, tight-programmed drum beats, much of it washed over with feedback and layers of reverb. On Dreaming Is Dead Now, Skinny underscores his distinctive position as an artist.
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Skinny Pelembe is a multi-talented artist, born in Johannesburg and raised in Doncaster. First debuting in 2017, he’s honed a distinctive musical style; memories and observations are weaved together, sun-dazzled California folk diced with the murkier corners of the UK dance lineage. He celebrates flawed, post-recession Britain, exalting the UK in all of its imperfect, contradictory realities. Releasing debut album Dreaming Is Dead Now in May 2019, he’s been tipped by The Observer, The Quietus and Huck. Singles I Just Wanna Be Your Prisoner and Spit/Swallow were both picked for BBC 6 Music’s A-List. He sold out a headline UK tour last year, was booked for 6 Music’s 2018 showcase at The Great Escape, and has supported Nightmares on Wax and Maribou State. His track Should You Go, for instance, first self-released on his 2017 Seven Year Curse EP, was included on Gilles Peterson’s iconic Brownswood Bubblers series. It also sparked connections with other artists on the label Future Bubblers, such as Yazmin Lacey, who had been picked for the scheme in the previous year. The pair performed together at the 2018 edition of Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide Awards, and Lacey featured on Skinny’s Sleep More, Make More Friends EP later that year. His music has spurred new connections and garnered him attention from artists he’s long admired, such as legendary producer and label boss James Lavelle (Mo’Wax), who tapped him up earlier this year, asking him to open for UNKLE at the Royal Festival Hall. The album is co-produced by Malcolm Catto (The Heliocentrics), and the producer’s connection to the LA hip-hop world saw Skinny's musical hero and iconic beatmaker Madlib drop by the studio during sessions for the record, while on the single Dreaming Is Dead Now, Skinny worked with a duo of foundational drum & bass producers – working under the covert alias of The Bleeding Edge – who he’s long looked up to. His varied approach to his influences started early on. His two older brothers were heavily into hip-hop, while he would also absorb the West Coast folk and country music played by his dad. The references for the artwork for Dreaming Is Dead Now speak to the diverse palette of influences which have always underlaid his approach, nodding to two of his favourite albums, Alice Coltrane’s Journey to Satchidananda and The White Stripes’ White Blood Cells. The album sees all of these different markers melded into something altogether new. Bright stitches of colour are threaded through dark-hued, heavyweight material, luminous guitar riffs slicing through tough, tight-programmed drum beats, much of it washed over with feedback and layers of reverb. On Dreaming Is Dead Now, Skinny underscores his distinctive position as an artist.
Afro, Psychedelic
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