Premiere: Listen: Adolescent Streams ‘Golden Halls’ EP In Full

It’s difficult to pick out a figurehead for all of this, but there’s a newly emerging line of producers blending the organic and the electronic like the two worlds were always meant to meet. Douglas Dare’s new ‘Whelm’ EP mixes softly-softly pianos with a distorted, punchy darker side, and there’s a thread between his work and that of Brighton-based producer Alex Parish aka Adolescent. His ‘Golden Halls’ EP starts with distinct, simple chords, but everything thereafter takes its own course.

This is a work both teeming with energy and ready to find its resting place. ‘Golden Halls Pt. 2’ sees Parish blurring the lines between heady melodies and all-out ambience. Chilled-out, dreamy - whatever you want to label it, there’s an emotional core to it all, something which makes Adolescent out to be more of a songwriting project than something purely production-rooted.

‘Golden Halls’ is released on 12th May. Catch Adolescent playing live in Brighton on 12th May (Bermuda Triangle) and at London’s Old Blue Last (13th May).

Adolescent, ‘Golden Halls EP’ (DIY Premiere):