With each successive release, Blawan has always started from scratch and come up with a different template for his sound, never producing the same record twice. He’s gone down an especially strange path since signing with XL, however. Instead of delivering techno club bangers, he’s made scuffed-up, grimy post-industrial mutations closer to the likes of the Bug and Andy Stott than Surgeon or Perc. Concurrently, he’s also made harsh electro-industrial metal as part of the duo Persher. SickElixir is what he deems his first proper full-length, and he uses it to process personal traumas. Most of the tracks feature unsettling distortion and demonic vocals, as well as lurching, quasi-dancehall rhythms. It seems like he’s designed every sound for the purpose…

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