Release Info

“ESKMO” (Ninja Tune) ZENDNL161 – Release Date: October 4, 2010

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“Electrifyingly enveloping…Sufficient mind-melting invention here…to render 
Eskmo a hotter property than that chilly moniker might immediately imply.” – BBC

“Eskmo has created his own sound.” – Future Sequence

“Elegently melodic, beautiful electronics and enough skewed rhythmatics to make this release a brilliant opening full-length release.” – Bleep

“Ethereal and very poetic in nature, and very representative of the whole listening experience.“  – The Line of Best Fit

“Genre-defying…synth blaze swim in a deep electronic pool…clanking bottom end…. Eskmo feels visionary more often than not.” – Textura

“‘More than capable of holding its own up with any of Flying Lotus’s best.” – Clash Music

Artwork: Karol Lasia | Mastering: Twerk |  Photography: Trevor Traynor

“ESKMO” (Ninja Tune)

“For his new album entitled “ESKMO” (Ninja Tune), Brendan has abandoned the strictures of making tracks for the dance floor and the strictures of the 12” single format, and followed his visionary muse. “Before Warp and Planet Mu I kind of fell into the game of making tracks to get released on smaller dance labels, having to cater to ‘dance’ formulas,” he explains. “Over this past couple of years, I feel I’ve let go of that, and just writing the songs I want to write. I got back to what excited me about making electronic music when I started out, creating these little universes with sound and writing songs.”

The album was, he says, written over a six month stretch “in the middle of a whole bunch of personal relationship-type stuff, a lot of deep life-experiences happening that helped the music just bleed out of me. I just poured all those feelings into the music, it’s very cathartic. This is the first full body of work where I’m singing all over it, and allowing myself to get over that furlough of expression has been really liberating.” He goes on to say “Just like anything, I’m sure some people will connect and some won’t at all, but that’s not what this is about for me. Sound has always been a grounding purpose in my life. If you don’t dive into yourself as deep as you can, then what are you doing it for?“

The first release on the label following Ninja Tune’s 20th Anniversary box set signals a brave new chapter for this artist, and for electronica itself. Dreamy, haunting, full of ghostly funk and inventive sonics, Eskmo serves up electronica with a most human heart.” – Ninja Tune