Out today in the form of limited cassette tape as well as your standard download formats comes Lapalux from Essex, giving us his Many Faces Out Of Focus EP through Pictures Music.

The 22 year old producer has been making a name doing it live as well, smashing the Boiler Room earlier in the month with a brilliant set that’s garnered love from the chinstroke massive. His forthcoming release offers six tracks of edgy leftfield soundscapes that allegedly had the mastering engineer bugging out at the level of complexity. Definitely one that you’ll keep revisiting, if not lose it over instantly.

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With Pictures Music already laying claim on the inaugural releases of hotly tipped artists such as Dark Sky and Koreless, they seem to have a knack of finding your next favourite producer… Lapalux – aka Essex boy Stuart Howard is no exception. At only 22 years old, this debut release is a promising start to a name that we expect to hear a lot more of this year.

Blissfull abstract soundscapes wash over you in abundance. With the terribly named genres of “hypnagogic-pop” and “witch-house” being in vogue of recent times, here sees the most promising equivalent offering from UK shores skilfully incorporating bass, electronic clicks, filtered electronics all with a underlying pop / R&B sensibility.

Limited, originally, to 50 tape cassettes which sold out immediately.