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Review: Adam Winchester and Laurie Osborne (probably still best known as Appleblim) are Wrecked Lightship and they have an inventive approach to dub, breaks and bass. Their work creates an immersive world full of rich, atmospheric textures and the latest example of that is Drained Strands, a new album for Peak Oil full of fragmented, genre-blurring sounds. The six-tracker is full of experimentation and new ideas from the off. 'Delinquent Spirits' for example is a jumble of jungle breaks and vast basslines with minimal percussion, 'Reeling Mist' is warm, blissed out dub and 'Somnium Sands' is an eerie and evocative world of synth designs and industrial decay.

Review: This is Sophie at her most unruly and most exacting. Originally released 2019, three years before her untimely death, the Glasgow-born producer disassembles her debut and reanimates it as a 94-minute, two-part odyssey, veering from hydraulic club destroyers to delicate ambient unspoolings. Originally released in 2019, it's not just a remix collection but a wholesale reinvention: self-authored, nonlinear, and often sublime. 'Ponyboy (Megadog)' thrashes through chrome-plated rhythms with chaotic grace, while 'Infatuation (Midnight Zone)' pulls back into pure atmosphere, full of liquid clarity and hushed suspense. There's a tactile, metallic intensity to everything here i especially on 'Faceshopping (Euphoric Reduce Me To Nothingness Remix)', which warps the original's plasticity into something wilder and more abstract. The album's sequencing mimics the logic of a club set, but what lingers most is the emotional palette: euphoric, alien, intimate. Sophie's sound across the project fuses dancetechnoambienthouse into a sculptural, shape-shifting form that foregrounds identity and sensation. At a time when many remix albums serve as filler, this stands apart: fiercely curated, radically personal and technically peerless.