- Early '00s garage throwback done right.
- Leeds-based Elias Buckley is a young gun in the UK bass scene, but it seems like he's got an old soul. His records harken back to the days when it wasn't totally clear where garage ended and grime or dubstep began, and his output to date has come via old-school refixes and dubplates. His latest EP, Gloam, for London 140 BPM hipsters Well Street Records, feels like his real debut. Each track here takes a different approach to early '00s bass sounds—we've got grimey melodies, dubstep wobbles, and some darkside basslines—and it's the title track that will elicit the most hands on the jogwheel. "Gloam" is desolate and dark. Over slowly disintegrating 2-step drums, Buckley places quivering subs and synths so cold they would have to be measured on the Kelvin scale. This is homage done so well that it sounds completely contemporary.