“In his debut full-length, the UK producer puts his idiosyncratic stamp on a variety of club styles, folding in the voices of his family members to add emotional resonance.”
“If there was going to be one mixtape we all needed to hear in 2021, it would probably be Joy Orbison’s debut, Still Slipping Vol.1, an aural assimilation of the best of British bass culture. The tape is like Joy O’s very own dance music time capsule, mining memoirs of delicate reel loops, lo-fi pillowed pads, cascading blips and mucky basslines that are clad in an offensive groove. The record in i”
“Countless fans of the UK underground can trace their best club experiences back to London producer/DJ Joy Orbison. You could fill an entire dancefloor with anecdotes about his tracks: the catharsis of synth-y debut Hyph Mngo; the curiously quotable vocal cut-ups threaded through Sicko Cell, Ellipsis and Swims; every baptism in the submerging bass of Brthdtt; the decade-long yearn for unreleased cu”
