Sabertooth

Musically building from the template of electronic dance rhythms, Stewart adjusts the palette with a variety of recorded instruments, heavy synthetics, and unabashed sampling of past prophets, fed through a meatgrinder of broke-ass guitar pedals or high-end analog equalizers. Artifacts of the pre-Apocalypse #1: Sabertooth is the first of Stewart Walker’s five-EP series. Blässe delivers raw techno thump which bounces between hard drums, buzzy world-band talk radio and a carnival-at dawn ambience. Sluice Gates raises the intensity level by combining powerful drums with Forbidden Planet-styled synthetics, plaintive Burial-esque piano fugues, and the swirling atmosphere of an Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.