“‘Comfy’ is a descriptor you might not expect for a Squarepusher album. Free Jazz, rotted electronic textures and heady drum and bass aren’t usually a warm embrace, but to hear a restlessly inventive artist like Tom Jenkinson return to his old stomping grounds (of fifteen albums ago) is definitely that. He’s spent his long, lauded career tinkering with new sounds and softwares, jumping from IDM to ”
“Squarepusher returns to form with the excellent Be Up A Hello”
“Whether you can consider this old-school, new-school, or somewhere in between scarcely matters. What we have here is yet another brain-melting album from an artist who refuses to stand still.”
“While not as cohesive as Squarepusher's seminal works, Be Up a Hello is his most solid work in at least a decade.”
“On his first proper album in five years, Tom Jenkinson patches together a passel of vintage hardware to revisit the breakbeat mayhem and drill’n’bass hijinks of his early years.”
“Emerging in the mid-90s as part of the generation of artists defining Warp Records’ IDM sound, Squarepusher now presides over a discography that positions himself directly opposite the genre’s ideological associations. His dense, frenetic electronica interprets sonic complexity as a million open invitations, rather than as barriers to entry. Pairing machine programming with dazzling live performan”
