Bullion - Young Heartache E.P.

Young Heartache E.P.

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1. Young Heartache
2. Are You The One?
3. Time For Us All To Love
4. Long Promised


This is really good. A fifteen minute long, warm summery hug from instrumental hip hop/electronic mofo, Bullion.
I'll get the obvious comparison and the one which hits you twenty seconds into Young Heartache out of the way; Bullion is very, very similiar to Flying Lotus. The same brand of soul infused, thick electronic beats prevails in both artists catalogues, yet Bullion manages to make his work just about distinguishable by freckling it with samples from Film and popular culture, and at times introducing dreamy soundscapes into his music.

First track Young Heartache is an apt all round introduction to Bullion, with eerie vocal samples and drum loops that sound as if they've had one too many drinks. Are You The One? takes things a bit more seriously with it's prominent bassline, before the dreamy Time For Us All To Love takes over, sounding as if it could be taken from The Avalanches back catalogue. This really is paradise music. Bullion plays us out with the jazzy dreaminess of Long Promised. At a brief 15 minutes, Young Heartache hits the balance of just about right and leaving you wanting more.

I don't want to generalise about an entire genre that I know next to little about, but (omgwtfhypocritz) Bullion has created some of the freshest sounding Hip Hop that I've heard, from anyone, ever. Maybe it's my inkling for music without prominent vocals, but this really is warming, summery stuff. While i'm not sure after describing a drum track as drunk that I can call this the most intelligent music i've heard in a while, it is a very confident E.P., and its sounds speak of being drunk on a beach at sunset, or chilling in the garden in the summer with your mates. Normally you listen to a piece of music and then associate it with memories; with Young Heartache, you've already mapped out what you'll be listening this to.

Bullion, along with Flying Lotus, will be hailed in ten years as one of the founders of modern hip hop. Get ahead of the curve.


8.6/10