Lo-fi, hand-animated charcoal drawings are not what we’ve come to associate with electronic music these days. But you’ll be happy to know that if the onslaught of dubstep videos with neon bikini babes head banging in Vegas is starting to make you go a little bit Clockwork Orange, we’ve got something different for you today. Lamplighter’s dusty, spacious new single “Mute” is an ultra-minimalist ballad driven by guitar plucks, quiet shakers, claps, and cosmic violin sweeps. He’s a shadowy figure from the UK’s left-field hip-hop scene, and as his biography says best, “Not much is known of the man, however there is a tale told that he spent many fruitless years pleading with Enya to feature on one of his jungle tracks. In what he saw as revenge, he purchased a Casiotone VL1 synthesizer in Oldham and has been hammering away at it in his shed ever since.” Well, we’d encourage you to keep hammering, Mister Lamplighter, because this track is freakin’ beautiful. “Mute” is out now Lamplighter’s Senses EP, available in digital and vinyl, from Kilimanjaro Records.






