Globular - Digging & Building

[Bill]

If you are at all familiar with Brit Morison Bennett and his Globular project then you should have an idea of how highly regarded his down tempo dub work is. Building a faithful following on some spectacular releases through Basilisk's Ektoplazm portal, those who appreciate his work are apt to quickly drop what they're doing to quick out his newest offerings. "Digging & Building" is a scant two tracks long but at a 30-minute total run time, 15 minutes of dub journeying on each track, it should be a journey worth getting excited over.

Technically, both are new tracks though "Infinity Inside" first appeared a mere three weeks earlier on Ektoplazm on the "Ethneomystica Vol 1" compilation. Curious timing, for sure, but difficult to gripe about since both are free releases. Still, that leaves "Deeper Than Dirt" as an authentically new Globular track and at an epic 15-minutes long...well, there should be heaps of magic inside.

All the familiar Globular traits are indeed within - the sweeping imagination, lush and sunny dub melodies, crazy-good chill-out vibes. Interestingly, on both tracks, for 30-minutes in total, there is something missing, though. That extra dash of old-fashioned Globular magic is simply not there. It sounds like Globular, it's constructed like Globular, it just does not charm like Globular.

If you hear accolades for his full-lengths, most specifically "A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy" and "Magnitudes Of Order," the hype is accurate and justified. You would be hard-pressed to find an equal where one in the down tempo world can sweep the listener away to another plane with such consistency, offering up lush and gorgeous and spiritually empowering aural adventures so effortlessly.

"Digging & Building", though, is not on that level. Sure, it goes into many of the same areas that makes his past works unforgettable and for all intents and purposes, it is still a very good work and when compared to contemporaries in the same field of sound, it may even be an almost-great work. But this is Globular and it is only fair to judge him based on his own canon of art.

With that, quite unfortunately, "Digging & Building" is mediocre at best.

http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/globular-digging-building

For some truly great Globular adventures, check out these, instead:

"A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy" - http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/globular-a-self-fulfilling-prophecy

"Magnitudes Of Order" - http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/globular-magnitudes-of-order