Anidea
Album | Guido
A startlingly accomplished album in a singles-heavy genre.
Dubstep music is still a genre largely defined by its wordless, propulsive singles instead of proper album releases, but UK artist Guido (aka Guy Middleton) looks to overcome that stigma with his debut disc. Although Ikonika’s full-length triumph Contact, Love, Want, Have got the ball rolling earlier this year, Anidea is the first dubstep album since Burial’s Untrue to fully overcome the stylistic limitations of the genre and display a unique voice. While each of the 12 tracks relies on a very different set of sounds, Guido's approach to production remains the same throughout and gives the album a surprising cohesiveness. The creeping synth line of “Anidea” shares little in common musically with the off-kilter brass of “Mad Sax,” for instance, but the two songs are unmistakably the work of the same technical maestro. The influence of hip-hop/R&B production on his sound also comes to fruition on the two vocal-assisted tracks, the disco jam “Way U Make Me Feel” and “Beautiful Complication,” a devastating piece of paranoid pop that would be making year-end singles lists if Beyonce were singing instead of Aarya. Anidea may not be destined for mainstream recognition, but its represents a step forward for both a flourishing genre and a gifted electronic artist.
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