“As ‘the sound of the future’ has continually oscillated between the extreme avant-garde and deep retromania, it has rarely taken on a coherent form. Yet on Drift, the third album by Gaika and the first on Big Dada since moving on from Warp, the multifaceted London musician reaches his ideal dimension in shaping an aesthetic for a new era. Gaika’s dancehall background and interest in sampling mean”
“Departing from his typically electronic palette, the UK musician’s new album plunges into a maze of contradictory influences drawn from dub, post-punk, and alt rock.”
“The multidisciplinary artist Gaika Tavares isn’t fond of being confined. He raps sometimes, but his murky, eclectic music resists a permanent home in the genre racks. Having worked with dance companies (Rambert) and scored for TV (Noughts + Crosses) as well as releasing an album on Warp, the south London-born, “club-raised” artist has also mounted interactive video sculptures (System, Somerset Hou”
