Description
It isn’t often an artist seems to materialize from nowhere with a sound so disinterested in following any conventional rules that it inspires equal measures bafflement and astonishment but in 2012, with the release of the ‘Unknown Vectors’ EP, Sd Laika did just that. Taking the already alien sounds of grime music as a starting off point and abrasively twisting them into something even more unknowable, Laika had developed a sound that defied any easy categorization. Two years later Dummy Magazine would come to refer to this record as “one of the most jaw-droppingly inventive debuts in recent memory and ought to be considered ‘the other ‘Cold Mission’” (in reference to the highly acclaimed 2013 album by Logos.
