Steep Stims

by Clark

Steep Stims cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 7 November 2025
  • Label: Throttle
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 47:54
  • Community rating: 3.63/5 from 8 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Steep Stims' signals a deliberate return to dancefloor fundamentals, embracing a production ethos centered on the creative constraints of a single vintage synthesizer to capture a raw, immediate energy. The album's songwriting pairs the hyperactive, saturated textures of rave and breakbeat with a deft melodic sensibility, evoking both physical intensity and nuanced personality. This approach results in a dynamic collection that balances high-octane club tracks against more explorative, beatless passages, emphasizing a tactile and corporeal connection to electronic sound.

Genres

Descriptors: complex, glitchy, distorted, syncopated, ferocious

Tracklist

  1. Gift and Wound (02:13)
  2. Infinite Roller (05:22)
  3. No Pills U (02:13)
  4. Janus Modal (06:26)
  5. 18EDO Bailiff (01:48)
  6. Globecore Flats (05:37)
  7. Blowtorch Thimble (03:30)
  8. Civilians (03:55)
  9. Inpatient's Day Out (05:10)
  10. Who Booed the Goose (03:18)
  11. 5 Millionth Cave Painting (01:01)
  12. Negation Loop (02:45)
  13. Micro Lyf (04:36)

Credits

  • Chris Clark - synths, drum machines, samplers, piano, vocals, field recordings, writing, production, primary artist, written-by, performer, producer, mixed by
  • Alma Haser - artwork
  • Charlie Noon - design
  • Matt Colton - lacquer cut by, mastered by, mastering
  • The Full Spectrum - management
  • Greg Eden - management [for the full spectrum]
  • Angus Donald - tuner [18edo piano]

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