Dusky - Outer (2016)

Responsible for some of the biggest UK house anthems in recent years (‘Careless’ and ‘Yoohoo’ among them), London duo Alfie Granger-Howell and Nick Harriman aka Dusky have announced the tracklist for their much anticipated artist album Outer

It represents the latest step in a journey that has seen the pair appeal to electronic music fans of many ages and tribes. Favourites of Radio 1’s dance music curators Annie Mac, Pete Tong and Danny Howard, Dusky remain regulars on both Resident Advisor DJ polls and Rinse FM tracklists alike. As DJs they have played everywhere from Berlin’s Panorama Bar and Ibiza’s DC10 to the biggest EDM festival stages in America, whilst their new audio-visual live show upholds a tradition established by great British dance duos The Chemical Brothers, Orbital and Leftfield.

In Outer, the duo have sought to distill the immediacy of their many dancefloor passions whilst “drawing on our wider influences and exploring sounds beyond our DJ sets”. Removed of restrictions, the album’s first single ‘Ingrid Is A Hybrid’ provided a window into these new experiments, but also sounded instantly Dusky. Blending cut-up vocal samples, vintage progressive house references and 90s rave motifs in a modern style, it was named an “instant classic” by Annie Mac and was a standout moment in recent live shows at London’s Field Day and Manchester’s Parklife