Style Of Eye aka Linus Eklow has remixed Moby, released acclaimed productions on heavyweights such as Pickadoll, Dirtybird, Classic Recordings, Tiny Sticks and Rabid Records, and he’s now ready to release his debut artist album, ‘Duck, Cover & Hold’.

Forming his most representative body of work to date, the album is both dischordant and melodic – minimal and maximal. As with his much-lauded singles, on ‘Duck, Cover & Hold’, Style Of Eye takes electronic music’s raw elements and bends them into danceable, emotive pieces of electronica.

‘The Big Kazoo EP’ and ‘The Prophet’ helped cement his profile within the global underground dance scene. But, as with someone who cites influences as diverse as Stevie Wonder, nineteenth century classical composer Edvard Grieg, and Yello, don’t expect Eklow to be constrained within one sub-genre.

His family background (jazz and soul), meant an early start as a live musician (drums), he discovered the meticulous nature of electronic music through drum & bass and trip hop in his teens, before becoming smitten with techno, where he could turn machines into willing accomplices in his search for new sounds.

Each track on ‘Duck, Cover & Hold’ is expertly constructed, but sits perfectly within a total listening experience. New single, ‘Girls’, and ‘Number Two’, are the most melodic of the 13 on show here. Elsewhere, jarring melodies play a central role, alongside synth stabs, chord progressions, bleeps, and a whole bank of original sounds. And with rhythms that could make statues dance, tracks such as ‘Duck, Cover & Hold’, ‘Ona’, and ‘Prophet’, are (underground) dancefloor gold.

Linus comments:
“The album was almost a year in the making, and felt like the perfect time to try and put things in a bigger perspective rather than concentrate on two tracks. So I wanted to make a dancefloor album but one that could also be heard as one CD, that could travel through different styles, but you could still connect the dots between the first and last tracks“.