After two singles on Hyperdub, and a release on Soul Jazz, King Midas Sound's 'Waiting For You' is the debut album from Roger Robinson and Kevin Martin's new group. In previous collaborations, Roger performed as a highly respected poet, but when he opened his mouth to sing, revealing a fragile falsetto, everything changed and King Midas Sound was born. The signature intensity of their previous solo projects remains, but the mood and feeling is radically different. As opposed to Roger's spoken word pronouncements and [Kevin's other project] The Bug's fierce battleground dancehall, King Midas Sound is more like an opiated aftermath. 'Waiting For You' is all about intimacy. Roger's vulnerable falsetto is nestled inside an intimateblanket of bass and vertiginous atmosphere. On three cuts, the bittersweet vocals of Hitomi (from Dokkebi Q) add a further disorientating swirl around the mix like memories gatecrashing the present. Two years after Hyperdub released Burial's [now legendary] 'Untrue' it is still rare to find albums like this, packed with such intense and exposed feelings. King Midas Sound deals with a similar strain of musical melancholia, but this album is more song-based, and generates the spectral bliss of a jilted lovers rock - sublime, heartbreak dub. Songs of psychic meltdown, the sweet toxicity of love, lyrical undertones of resentment, & echoed lullabies to the departed, all make for a quite remarkable new Hyperdub release.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Cool Out
2. Waiting For You
3. One Thing
4. Earth a Kill Ya
5. Dahlin'
6. Meltdown
7. I Man
8. Blue
9. Goodbye Girl
10. Lost
11. Sometimes
12. Outer Space
13. Miles & Miles