ABOUT THIS ITEM

"Waiting For You" is the debut album from Roger Robinson and Kevin Martin, aka King Midas Sound. The signature intensity of their previous solo projects remains, but the mood and feeling is radically different. As opposed to Roger's spoken word pronouncements and The Bug's fierce battleground dancehall, King Midas Sound is more like an opiated aftermath. "Waiting For You" is all about intimacy. Roger's falsetto is fragile and vulnerable, a sound somewhere between Gregory Isaacs and Vincent Gallo, nestled inside an intimate blanket of bass and vertiginous atmosphere. On three of the album cuts, the duo becomes a trio, as the bittersweet backing vocals of Hitomi (from Dokkebi Q) add a further disorientating swirl around the mix like memories gatecrashing the present. Two years after Hyperdub released Burial's "Untrue" it is still rare to find albums packed with such intense and honestly exposed feelings. King Midas Sound often deals with a similar strain of musical melancholia, but instead of hyper-emotional haunted garage, "Waiting For You" is absolutely song-based, and generates the spectral bliss of a jilted lovers rock, a sublime, heartbreak reggae.