It’s a mess, to be sure, but Freaker is often able to curate the messiness into mesmerizing songscapes lifted from some alternative sci-fi reality. I’m trying to fuse rave with grime/ hip-hop groovers, drops, drum patterns and basslines.” This hybridized sensibility is manifest throughout the EP each track is a bristling morass of genre conventions that have been gutted, sewed together spine-to-spine, and processed through Freaker’s particular blend of coked-out adrenaline and stressed-out paranoia. It may not win over new parishioners from pop’s mainstream, but it should attract those electronica devotees willing to swim against the current.Īhead of its release, Freaker was candid about his vision for the EP: “The timeliness of this music isn’t so important, the main thing is that it’s rave music. The next of kin to February’s Don’t Freak Out mixtape, ADHD is entirely composed of drugged-out, synth-centric instrumentals, a format that grants Freaker the latitude to indulge in his most twisted and unorthodox sonic impulses. The result is a collection of five, nearly epileptic electronic tracks that tap into emotional registers often glossed-over in popular music: unease, gut-twisting anxiety, that particular feeling of dread when a comedown isn’t going well or when a come up has taken a wrong turn. ADHD, the latest EP from London-based grime producer Darq E Freaker, takes the sound of a hyperactive nervous breakdown and sieves it through an amped-up composite of contemporary trap, video game sound design, and going-ballistic hip-hop.

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