Name: In Blue
Brand: The Bug featuring Dis Fig

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

HDBCD055

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-11-20

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Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

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5055869593823

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

HDBLP055

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black

2021-01-08

5055869593816

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2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

The Bug featuring Dis Fig

Genre GB

Bass / Breaks

Label GB

Hyperdub

The Bug aka Kevin Martin, and producer / vocalist Dis Fig aka Felicia Chen, refer to their style on In Blue as “Tunnel Sound”; a foggy, melancholic meltdown of narco-dancehall-soul and dread-drenched, electronic dub. The 2018 prototype rhythms for this album were a continuation of Martin’s ongoing quest for a futuristic dancehall mutation, but more sci-fi, aquatic and smokey than before. An obsessive search for the right sultry 2AM voice to ride his syncopated walls of sub, fuzzed out white noise and infinite echoes eventually led him to Dis Fig’s torched soul-jazz glow, and 20 months of subsequent lab exchanges have resulted in the deeply sensual pulsations and lyrical long shadows of In Blue -an album that shares shades of King Midas Sound’s wrecked lovers rock, alongside the bass immersion that The Bug has become infamously known for. Just as Martin took a stylistic swerve on In Blue, so did Chen. Previously known for experimental noise onslaughts and emotional exorcisms, she opts here for threatening intimacy and hushed confessionals, concentrating on bittersweet vocals and seductive surprises that are all the more potent for their inferred narratives and delicate delivery. Mixed during lockdown, the sense of claustro fear, escapism and tension throughout is palpable. With the bewitching croon of Dis Fig directing the flow, carnality and violence merge under the turbulent, cinematic surface of an hypnotically addictive album.

In Blue

Music GB