When, in the final third of Sinking, a track sounds that is dedicated to the genre whose history has shaped so much on this record, only then not to sound like it at all, that is a statement worth taking a closer look at. »Dear Dubstep« does not submit to the typical bass play and grumbling beats at 140 BPM. It is a gentle, spacey ambient track that first gives this letter its content through what remains unsaid. As though Beatrice Masters wanted to suggest to dubstep here that while it is worth taking up the roots of its sound, it is also time to try something new.
Masters is not sparing with her knowledge of those roots either, as tracks such as the hovering and deeply simmering »Help« or the Martyn soundalike – here absolutely to be understood as a compliment – »Ocean« suggest in particular. Especially in the middle, however, the album shifts into more uncompromising and yet melody-loving techno moments, incidentally straightening out the mistakes of many genre forerunners. In the early 2010s, many wanted nothing more to do with dubstep and defected to techno. On this outstanding album, Masters shows that it comes down to the right sounds if both are to exist alongside one another.
Sinking Part 1
