"Henry 'Ike' Clateman is most at home behind the decks, detonating 808s and cheap-synthed dubstep in London basement clubs. Here, he's steeping a piano in delay and letting tiny shoals of melody do their thing. Vocalist Maria Manow should be on stage, striking vape-flavored fervor into the hearts of sweaty moshpits. Now she's letting amorphous, doe-eyed cello melodies float away like abandoned balloons at a birthday party."
"Their music is garishly maximalist, their ethos hedonist, and their movement proudly reactionary, inspired by the UK's increasingly unaffordable nightlife scene and an obsession with the 2010s. With their fried Eurodance synths and scatterbrained drum machine salvos, the group are best known for their strain of " basspunk " ; the self-coined sound of a generation raised on dubstep, shitposting, and hyperpop."
Bassvictim are a London duo melding dubstep 808s, fried Eurodance synths, and hyperpop aesthetics into a self-styled basspunk. Forever runs 33 minutes of bassy, glow-in-the-dark tracks with maximalist energy and lyrics that read like IG-story streams of consciousness. Henry 'Ike' Clateman alternates club-ready 808 detonations with delay-steeped piano on quieter moments, while Maria Manow supplies gleeful, mangled vocals alongside unexpected cello melodies. Production by Norwegian co-producer FAKETHIAS accentuates bitcrushed, corrupted-MP3 textures and scatterbrained drum-machine salvos, reinforcing a hedonist, reactionary movement rooted in the UK's unaffordable nightlife and 2010s nostalgia.
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