Experimental electronic from Holy Roman

Untethered to any one style or genre, Manchester-based musician and producer Andrew Bowers has amassed a body of work that has, over time, encompassed lo-fi hip-hop, electronica, dance-punk, folktronica, punk/garage rock, future r’n’b, and UK bass music along with trace elements of rave, house, electro and footwork.

However, none of this music was made publicly available until 2019. Now, exclusively an electronic producer under the Holy Roman moniker, the artist creates a genre-fluid and emotionally-charged hybrid of styles using found sounds, signature vocal chops and cutups alongside lo-fi and dance sensibilities, blurring the borders between the dance floor and headphone experiences.

His latest album, and first public release, 2021’s Let Manchester Shake, is a dizzying flashbang of adrenaline and serotonin-rush party music celebrating the dynasty of independent underground UK cultures.

Lifted from the album comes the second single “Dance On Nothing Until The Dancing Is Done”, the title based on a passage from the novel American Gods by Neil Gaiman

The new track is a menacing future film noir epic featuring spiralling psychedelic synthesisers, a downtempo clattering hip-house beat, a simmering undercurrent of ghostly cinematic atmosphere and Holy Roman’s trademark cut n’ paste vocals.

Listen to Dance On Nothing Until The Dancing Is Done below