The Inheritors James Holden Rar

Since 2006’s The Idiot’s Are Winning, Border Community stalwart James Holden’s release output has been minimal, though the influence of his work has nonetheless spread. The Inheritors displays a wealth of strong material, which shows Holden still has a capacity to produce inventive and stimulating electronica of the highest order. There’s a wayward sense of playfulness in Holden’s mixing of unusual musical combinations throughout the record. ‘Seven Stars’ is part muscular trip-hop, part seaside carousel tune, while ‘Sky Burial’ adds splintering knife scrape samples and church organs around a pummelling bit-crushed bass line. The quieter, more introverted retreats within the album’s more dancefloor-ready numbers impress most, with ‘Circle of Fifths’ creating a sensation of physically spinning through disorientating samples in addition to harmonically continuing to fall and fall. ‘Delabole’ and ‘Rannoch Dawn’ see Holden approach a band-like sound, with intriguing results, the latter track drawing an unlikely link between jacking house and driving Krautrock. It is The Inheritors sheer volume of tracks which avoiding generic categorisation recommend it so highly, with eccentric dancefloor bangers like ‘Gone Feral’ and ‘Blackpool Late Eighties’ crystallising the record’s bewildering span of influences into club formats in a way which shows experience and a continued spark.

Queen Jewels 2004 Rare on this page. Jun 19, 2013 James Holden has released hardly any music of his own since his first album, 2006's The Idiots Are Winning, but he hasn't been a wallflower either. How We Won the Hominid Wars, and All the Others Died Out / The Land of Painted Caves Book 6 of the Earth's Children® Series / James Holden The Inheritors / William Golding The Inheritors / Homo Floresiensis: Facts About the 'Hobbit' / Top 10 Inventions that Changed the World / Crossed: Badlands.

For me, not the usual 'James Holden sound' I was used to, like back in the early 2000's up till 2005. It was the caterpillar's Intervention that caught my attention. When I've heared it the first time, I played it 5 times in a row. This track is truly amazing and somehow reminds me when a Western movie reaches a final climax. Actually, it should have been used in 'The hateful eight'! Quentin tarantino, you've missed out on this one;-) For me, this album proves that James masters all kind of genres.