{"product_id":"the-grand-designer","title":"The Grand Designer","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdrian Sherwood returns with his first music as a solo artist in 13 years with the mutating rhythmic soundscapes of The Grand Designer EP, the latest instalment in On-U Sound's long-running and much-loved 'disco plate' series. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title track serves as a trailer for a forthcoming full-length album, with different instruments filtered through Sherwood's bank of effects over an irresistible groove, and typically deft percussive detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Let's Come Together\" flips the same rhythm into a mystical dub, with sadly departed friend and collaborator Lee \"Scratch\" Perry providing typically off-the-wall vocal interjections. It also serves as a reminder that Sherwood has been far from idle since his last release under his own name: in recent years releasing critically acclaimed new albums with not only the Upsetter, but also Horace Andy, Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3) \u0026amp; Panda Bear (Animal Collective), African Head Charge, Spoon, Creation Rebel, Pinch and more. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Russian Oscillator\" perhaps cleaves closest to the Sherwood and Pinch records, experimental electronics weaving in and out of heavy sound system sonics and a ruffneck dancehall adjacent swing. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe EP closes with \"Cold War Skank\", a left hand turn off the highway into scorched desert blues, distorted slide guitar patterns over widescreen film score atmospherics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAvailable as a strictly limited and collectable 10\" vinyl, mastered and cut by Frank Merritt at The Carvery, housed in a classic On-U disco plate sleeve, with cover collage by Studio Tape-Echo.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"On U Sound","offers":[{"title":"10\" - Black","offer_id":51776193921355,"sku":"R7190-1652","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/unnamed_9a39473f-a6c9-427f-a546-2f7b02c15cd9.jpg?v=1746526148","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/the-grand-designer","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}