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Actress

Actress

Any attempt to bound the work of Darren Cunningham, aka ACTRESS, within the limits of a single genre is destined to fail. Music journalists have been learning this lesson since his debut Hazyville (2008) and his breakthrough album Splazsh (2010), when he announced himself to the world as an artist who aims to subvert expectations. The musician (and former professional footballer) from Wolverhampton once described his sound—which blends, amongst other things, (post-)dubstep, deep house, beatscience and electronica—as “R&B concrète”. His latest LP, Radical Frame, seems to reassert this claim: tender compositions meet high-energy intensity, nightmares meet hope, and the Black avant-garde (the album’s central theme) meets tracks brimming with radical pop appeal.

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