I’ve had the eponymous debut EP from Brixton duo Glyphs (Facebook/SoundCloud) on repeat for a good part of a month and still find myself having some real trouble describing their sound which draws influences from everything from folktronica to dubstep.

Opening track track On & On reminds me a little of the delights I’ve always found in the electronic folk stylings of Tunng, but the beat they use behind that folk vocal melody has an almost tropical feel to it. Then whilst Little Pieces sounds fragile in places, the bass line nearly falls into a dubstep bass – not quite there, and folktronica is the form the song is built around, but dubstep is definitely in there. The wobble finally comes in The More We Saw when they drop any softer folk elements and produce something darker, something heavier.

The EP is a journey through the electronic landscape, a road travelled by Mark Walsh and Matt Wilkie somewhere in their move from Liverpool to South London. The final song, Half Surprised, takes all those hypnotic, colourful, and genre-bending elements to close the EP with my favourite song on there, leaving me with a need for more.

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Half Surprised by Glyphs
On & On by Glyphs
Transit Lounge by Glyphs
Little Pieces by Glyphs
Outline by Glyphs
The More We Saw by Glyphs
Dems – Lioness (Glyphsmix)
My Tiger Lily – Subspace Highway (Glyphsmix)