Limerence, Young Monatana?’s debut album, raises the bar of multidimensional productions since Cosmogramma by Flying Lotus even a bit higher. After Mary Anne Hobbes of BBC’s Radio 1 had titled the young man from the isle to be Favourite Unsigned Artist of 2010, the number of fans around Jon Pritchard increased immensely. Young Montana? picks his beats to pieces and weaves a big, colorful carpet of sounds out of them. The samples and instrumentals were wisely chosen form the depths of Hip Hop, Grime, Soul and Dancefloor-Electronica and draw nostalgic and futuristic connections. Montana proves his sensitivity for the operating range of sounds and keeps the flow in one big whole. Even the breaks are filled with vocals or instrumentals. Still, the experimental outcome neither lacks structure nor clarity that are often missed on productions of that kind. His equipment aren’t just tools to him, but instead enable Pritchard to always take a step forward. Limerence is evidence for his feeling for connections between the genres, as well as arrangements within a high degree of complexity – and has certainly little to do with mere beat-tinkering.
Limerence
