Tremors
SOHN initially made waves with his ultra-hip electro-soul remixes, but the producer/songwriter’s debut album showcases the breadth of his talent beyond the mixing board. Merging neo-soul melodies, crackling electronics and elements of dubstep and house, *Tremors* is a tour of elegant sonic minimalism and exquisite songwriting. The album’s soaring single, “Artifice”, displays these virtues in a tidy package, while downtempo tracks like “Lights”, “Bloodflows” and “Paralysed” are strung together in a mesmerising nocturnal soundtrack. While the title track delivers a clapping beat, a thick fog of analogue synths and an aching melody, *Tremors* closes with a mournful, masterful statement from an artist of seemingly unlimited potential.
The Vienna-based, London-born producer SOHN is one of the more high profile examples of artists who've run with the “indie” R&B of James Blake and the Weeknd's House of Balloons. His debut LP Tremors is coded for everything you could learn about this sort of music*.*
An album that stares down the barrel at a red dot over your heart. Unfortunately for you, it's got an itchy trigger-finger.
London-bred producer SOHN first emerged in 2012 with his immaculately composed track "The Wheel," a song that glided effortlessly along on clouds of vocal samples, marrying daydreamy bliss with utter exhaustion as it patiently wandered its emotional arc.
Having nabbed a 4AD signing off the back of his first EP The Wheel, the now-Vienna-based British (and former Trouble Over Tokyo) producer Toph Taylor – as SOHN – drops his exquisitely produced debut, and the result is a near-flawless, diaphanous LP, as soulful and brooding as it is sleek and measured. Running a policy of tight vocal loops, raindrop percussion, and hypnotic, membranous bass, these eleven tracks mark SOHN an unflinching virtuoso.
Album review: SOHN - Tremors. "Sure to be a hit with the disenfranchised, give the man a single bulb to perform under on stage and fans will be riveted."
Northern Transmissions Reviews Tremors the new LP BY SOHN. Tremors comes out 4/7 on 4AD, the first single is "Lessons" SOHN plays 4/5 in Dornbirn, Austria
<p>Christopher Taylor's icy, pristine electronica is hampered by its offputtingly overwrought emotional intensity, writes <strong>Harriet Gibsone</strong></p>
It’s kind of a shame that for whatever reason (presumably SEO), Vienna-based producer and singer SOHN (formerly known as S O H N) had to drop the spaces in between the letters of his name. As well as a self-conscious aesthetic flourish, it was after all a neat tie-in with the artist’s overall approach: patience, space, cool restraint.