London-based producer Vasser just dropped his new EP ‘A Telling End’, a truly accomplished body of electronica. Featuring acclaimed recent tracks To The Wolves and Little Things. This follows Vasser’s much-praised debut Whatever You Want/Retract.
Effortlessly blending organic, acoustic textures and atmospheric electronics, ‘A Telling End’ details the minutiae of a relationship that is slowly but surely dying out. It’s a confessional but coolly-controlled step forward from Vasser, a still-just-18-year-old evidently keen to experiment across this series of ambitious, intricate tracks (in which he also sings, plays, and self-produces everything).
Moreover, ‘A Telling End’ captures that confusion and possible chaos in a transitional time for Vasser (and his peers). Half German, half British, and born to an inherently creative household – his mother is an oil painter – the family’s sleepy-commuter town in Kent nonetheless offered little musical evidence of the sort of beat-makers Vasser found himself continually drawn to (such as Francis & The Lights or Jon Hopkins). He started writing songs in earnest around his final exams, unsure of what lay ahead but keen to follow an artistic instinct first hinted at aged 9, when he started playing Jazz with some like-minded school friends. And so beginning with ‘Whatever You Want’, Vasser simply did it all himself: lyrically channelling an uncertainty over what lay ahead (in your career, and your romantic life) into textured electronic pop.
Listen to the ‘A Telling End’ EP below
