Following on from the incredibly well received EP Modern Driveway released through NOTOWN in May 2012, Luke Abbott's Object Is A Navigator EP continues where Modern Driveway left off, with the mesmerizing combination of warm, analogue sounds and a beating heart of twisted melody. Object is a Navigator EP was released on 12” vinyl and digitally on December 10, 2012 and is the second EP of music released by Abbott since the slow burning success of his 2010 LP Holkham Drones.
Receiving praise across the spectrum from the likes of Mojo (one of their Electronica Albums of 2010), The Guardian, NME, the dance press, The Wire, Resident Advisor and Drowned In Sound – Abbott has resisted the urge to cash in on his rise in popularity. It’s something he certainly could do given that, as he admits, “making music has become a part of my day-to-day life, like eating or sleeping, I write an awful lot at home;” instead, though, the he deals in complete wholes, juxtaposing a sense of aural freedom atop considered thought processes.
An intimate communal atmosphere has always surrounded Abbott’s work, and he remains rooted in his native Norwich, largely, he states, because of the healthy scene growing in his home town now. It’s that warmth that perhaps imbues on Object Is A Navigator, aided further by electronics both digital and analogue, some of which the producer designs and makes himself as part of a home studio that resembles the cluttered and manically accumulated hubs of some of the 1970s great sonic thinkers. Yet Luke Abbott’s music itself doesn’t feel retro in any way itself; rather Object Is A Navigator contains songs both for the here and now, and sounds that look set to continue to sculpt his future.
