Trials

Producer/drummer Liam Hutton's debut EP 'Trials' opens with the ebulliance of 'Dumb' featuring Algebra's own Casually Here, who weaves textured layers of synths, pitched vocals and arpegiated details throughout the track. Fellow Boxed In bandmate Jack Benfield makes an addition, with his guitar parts offering a soothing change of pace in the mid section, dreamily giving way to a crescendo of heavy snare rolls and crashes ahead of the track's finale. Propulsive breaks and syncopated stabs set the pace in the upbeat 'Walker' taking off into a blissed out technicolour paint splashed close.

'Shade' continues on a darker nocturnal note, with pitched down vocals and hazy pads framed by a lazy backbeat and percussive knocks building to an expansive peak before dissipating into smoke. 'Trials' ends the EP with a sense of introspective purpose; chopped up chord stabs against a stumbling, dreamlike soundscape evoking the worlds of Four Tet's 'Rounds' into psychedelic arps pushing at the edges.

As a session drummer, Liam has spent the last 12 years touring and recording with artists becoming one of his generation's top session players and as the go to for a raft of top producers including Dan Carey, Oli Bayston, Kwes and Bullion. With over 100 million streams of records he's played on, notable releases include Shura's 'Forevher', Brodka's 'Brut', Orlando Weeks' 'A Quickening', Rachel Chinouriri's 'Four Degrees In Winter' EP, Steve Mason's album 'Monkey Minds In The Devil's Time', Soak's 'Grim Town', Foxes 'Friend's In The Corner', Anna Of The North 'Leaning On Myself' and tracks from George Fitzgerald's 'All That Must Be' album including 'Outgrown (feat Bonobo)'. As a live drummer Liam has toured extensively with artists like Neneh Cherry, Kae Tempest, Steve Mason, Sir Was, Skinny Pelembe and Boxed In.

Algebra founder Nic Nell makes music as Casually Here. He recently produced Orlando Weeks' lauded 'A Quickening' album and released a collaborative album with Lawrence Hart as a series of EPs on Scuba's esteemed Hotflush Recordings.