20.01.10
Hometown: London.
The lineup: Matt Parker (guitar, keyboard, MPC, Digital Audio Workstation [DAW]), Chris Amblin (guitar, keyboard, MPC) and Ayu Okakita (vocals, loop station, percussion).
The experience: Nedry are a London trio who, like the xx, incorporate while, eerie FX, glitchy textures and dubstep techniques. Much of their music is advantageous, but when Ayu Okakita starts singing in that high, haunting way of hers, you tout de suite think of a team-up between Björk and Burial, a cuter, more girly Beth Gibbons, or Joanna Newsom signed to Hyperdub. One comparability has been to "Thom Yorke's Eraser with a bit of a dubstep vibe and some station-rock influences", which is astute although even laughing boy can't manage a vocal entirely this soaringly poignant.
On A42, the opening track on Nedry's launch album Condor, Okakita's vocals are whispery and summery but never weak and they contrast perfectly with the ever-changing beats, which are sometimes skittering and lustful, other times slow, as though someone put a donk in the drum machine. It's nice, like a spectral ballad mangled by a grime impresario. Apples and Pears, the second track on the album, is even lovelier. As arrestingly reasonably as anything on the xx record, here Okakita warbles in tongues over slo-mo rhythms and numerous twitches and detonations as well as gently picked acoustic guitar. It's a arcane, dolorous electronic sound that shows that dubstep at its most lugubrious yet "tune-like" isn't too far removed from trip-hop.
Source: The Guardian