Outside the Box

Rating

Album: Outside the Box
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Perferated	More Info...	0:02
2)	8 Bit Baby (Feat. Murs)	More Info...	0:05
3)	CPU	More Info...	0:04
4)	Where You Should Be (Feat. Sam Frank)	More Info...	0:04
5)	How Real (Feat. Freckles)	More Info...	0:04
6)	Fields of Emotion	More Info...	0:06
7)	I Love the Way	More Info...	0:05
8)	Listenin' to the Records On My Wall	More Info...	0:03
9)	Wibbler	More Info...	0:04
10)	Metamorphosis	More Info...	0:05
11)	Finally (Feat. La Roux)	More Info...	0:04
12)	Reflections (Feat. DBridge & Instra:mental)	More Info...	0:05
13)	A Song for Lenny	More Info...	0:03
14)	The Epic Last Song	More Info...	0:05

Album: Outside the Box
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Perferated	More Info...	0:02
2)	8 Bit Baby (Feat. Murs)	More Info...	0:05
3)	CPU	More Info...	0:04
4)	Where You Should Be (Feat. Sam Frank)	More Info...	0:04
5)	How Real (Feat. Freckles)	More Info...	0:04
6)	Fields of Emotion	More Info...	0:06
7)	I Love the Way	More Info...	0:05
8)	Listenin' to the Records On My Wall	More Info...	0:03
9)	Wibbler	More Info...	0:04
10)	Metamorphosis	More Info...	0:05
11)	Finally (Feat. La Roux)	More Info...	0:04
12)	Reflections (Feat. DBridge & Instra:mental)	More Info...	0:05
13)	A Song for Lenny	More Info...	0:03
14)	The Epic Last Song	More Info...	0:05

Performer Notes

Audio Mixer: Skream.
Photographer: Shaun Bloodworth.
Ollie Jones, recording as Skream, has been on the dubstep scene since it first lurched out of the London clubs and into the Croydon record shop in which he worked as a teen. Still in his early twenties, Jones has exerted a huge influence on the development of the genre, and on Outside the Box he contributes to a breaking down of the very stylistic definitions he helped create. Guest vocalists pop up here and there throughout the program, but their parts are often chopped and screwed and manipulated and sometimes rendered nearly unrecognizable -- that's a sample of disco diva Jocelyn Brown on "I Love the Way," but her voice is pitched down and tethered to a coolly lurching beat that makes her declaration of love sound more like a cry of desperation; on "Where You Should Be," pop and dubstep join hands and Sam Frank's voice is sacrificed to the great god Vocoder, to very fun effect. Elsewhere you'll hear instrumental dubstep of the more typical dark and juddering variety ("Wibbler," "Fields of Emotion"), mixed-up jungle ("Listenin' to the Records on My Wall"), syrupy hip-hop with subterranean bass ("8 Bit Baby," with Murs on the mike), and straight-up lush and gorgeous electro-pop ("Finally," featuring La Roux). And at the very end, everything explodes into a colorful effusion of frenetic old-school jungle breakage ("The Epic Last Song"). It's an exhilarating ride, equally suited for dancing, fast driving, or skateboarding down the middle of a busy city street. ~ Rick Anderson

Professional Reviews

Mojo (Publisher) (p.99) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Jones genetically modifies the cavernous dubstep basslines by experimenting in Detroitish techno, hardcore, old skool junglism and trad electronica."

Pitchfork (Website) - "[T[racks like 'Where You Should Be' and 'How Real' simultaneously bring heavy, frame-rattling basslines for the steppers and wistful pop-R&B vocals for the lover's-rock crowd."

Clash (magazine) - "From the moody chasms of 'Metamorphosis' to the onomatopoeic LFO-driven 'Wibble', this is a true chocolate box of dubstep's disparate splinter styles..."

Uncut (magazine) (p.101) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "OUTSIDE THE BOX stretches dubstep definitions beyond current legal limits, from the cubist rave-pop of his Freckles collaboration...to the transatlantic robo-stomp of '8 Bit Baby'..."