Feed Me remains my favorite dubstep guy out there, maybe only because his status as a dubstep guy is kinda questionable. Sure he uses the big warps and bends and drops, but they're usually couched in something more interesting, textured, and nuanced than your average build-build-build-drop-thumpathumpathumpa punk-simple nonsense that's been going around.
Really, the only place he goes wrong is when he gets vocals into the mix, as he does on the title track of this short ep. Feed Me's no daft punk, and robot voices are tougher to pull off than he seems to appreciate. Though the one-one-one-one thumpdown is a fun little joke for binary types.
Far better is gravel, which builds and shifts in unpredictable ways, actually sounding chaotic and dangerous in a way that songs of its kind aspire to and rarely achieve. It's a twisty robot sidewinder, and trying to wrestle it's a fun game. Dialup Days closes things out as a fun little ditty, but something better suited as a mid-album palette cleanser than an EP closer.
None of it matches up to the legendary opening three tracks of Feed Me's Big Adventure, but it gives me hope that this guy's got enough ingenuity and touch to survive the ongoing dubstep crash 3.5/5
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