Pre-order of NPC. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
Purchasable with gift card
releases May 3, 2024
€9EUR or more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Tracklist will be unveiled over the coming weeks.
Includes digital pre-order of NPC.
You get 2 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
"Arriving as the third album on Supreems ‘Sweet Sun’ label – an imprint gathering a reputation for future-facing, storytelling electronic music – Sloucho's 'NPC' explores the duality of his main character and non-playable lives. Spending a long time isolated, Sloucho became lost in his own world, his mind turning passersby into NPC’s in a skewed video-game nightmare. Breaking through the isolation came with the realisation that he too was an NPC in so many people's lives, and the recognition that both states of existence can be simultaneously true
Featuring a strong Irish artistic presence across the albums collaborations, Sloucho navigates through Cloudcore-inspired broken beats, bass-driven percussion, alternative dreamscapes and wubby fuck-steps on his most complete release to date, laying the foundation for an origin-story in the process.
Garnering support from Surusinghe, Roza Terenzi, Two Shell and more; some of the tracks on NPC have already been heard in clubs around the world - from Antwerp to London and Mumbai to Paris. But here on NPC we are offered an insight into Sloucho's world.
๓เภ๔ Շгคשєɭɭєг offers an introduction to ‘Athrú’, Sloucho’s home world, as the artist's pitched vocals act as the listeners guide into the island's core. We explore Athrú until our encounter with '𝓢ꮺꔛ⋆ǂ ℳ𓂅ǂⓐ﹆ꮺ ϩ⁰⁰⁰' a cut of alien-club beamed directly from ‘Eile’, the afterlife of Sloucho’s Neolithic ancestors. A waltzer-ride through Latin-bass and techno with an oxymoronic blend of maximalist and minimalist futurism, it’s as silly as it is serious, bringing the album’s rapid first half (and a bit) to a close.
Wandering through Eile, Sloucho seamlessly weaves from front left of the club to dark, fume-filled rooms exploring a previously unseen side to his sound, meandering through alternative trap and hip-hop laden beats that are both dreamy and nightmarish, bringing NPC to its starry-skied climax."
credits
releases May 3, 2024
Written + Produced by Sloucho
Mixed + Mastered by Michele Mucci
Photography by Jack O'Flynn
Design by OUCH!!
Distributed by Inch By Inch
Manufactured by R.A.N.D.
Words by Andrew Moore