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Finished with a quartet of EPs teasing its arrival, UK producer Martin Dawson, AKA King Roc, has finally announced the release of his debut album later this year.
For many, of course, Roc is one-half of Two Armadillos with Giles Smith of Secretsundaze, but there is little of the deep house that the duo produces on this solo record, entitled Chapters. Instead, the album sees Dawson experimenting with genres like trip-hop, ambient and chillout in much the same way that he did on his four releases on Mutual Society last year.
Many of the same track titles from those EPs are to be found on Chapters, but the tracks are the same in name only: Dawson's has twisted each original into different forms for the album release, with "trip-hop transformed into a beautiful vocal number, [and] techno into lush, beatless cinematics" for example. The result is an album, full of strings, melody and emotion.

Tracklist

01. The Beginning
02. Random Chances
03. Lunar People
04. The Growing Phrase
05. Phidias Gold
06. A Pocket Full of Prose
07. Tube Whistle
08. Everything from Nothing
09. Flow
10. ViscoVery#1
11. Beautiful But Weird
12. Melon Koly Flower
13. The End
Mutual Society will release Chapters on March 23rd, 2009.

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