British future-garage songwriter-producer Aaron Jerome, better known by his stage name SBTRKT, released a short 1-second clip on his socials, it accompanies a longer trailer directed by (the mysterious) THE REST. The announcement brings to light his first music in 6 years; ‘BODMIN MOOR Prequel’. You can check out the trailer below.
While it has been a good while since our last new SBTRKT music – and even longer since Wonder Where We Land, which is considered his last actual album and not just a collection of offcuts – but that doesn’t mean that the announcement has come out of nowhere. Huxley, another artist floating around the same circles, posted on his Twitter on June 2nd saying, “what happened to sbtrkt man”, SBTRKT himself quickly responded with a mysterious link – https://thevanishingpost.com. The website probably raised more questions than it actually answered. Clippings of old newspapers, blurry black and white photos of animals, and medieval tapestries all revolving around the existence of some sort of beast. The bottom of the page shows a link to the same short animation that was publicly released today. All very mysterious.
But now, we have official information, not just general ramblings of SBTRKT finally resurfacing. It’s not much but it is something. We know that there’s music, and it’s probably called BODMIN MOOR. Which fits with the animalistic theme from the Vanishing Post website. The legend of the beast of Bodmin Moor is one that has a lot of overlap with SBTRKT in terms of imagery and atmosphere, it almost makes sense.
Last year, when posting about the 10th anniversary of his, now classic, self-titled debut, Jerome went on to comment about the future of the project. “Maybe one day I will play some of the unreleased off-cuts from the album and also perform it as one record on its own! I guess more importantly – I’ve been writing new music for quite a while… it’s been too long but good shit takes time and I can’t wait to share it with you.”
It’s true, we don’t actually have any confirmed information just yet, but if the industry and general hype-building as a whole is anything to go by… I reckon we’ll have our answers in less than a week. Whether it’s an album, a tour, or something else completely different – I don’t know a soundtrack to a movie(?) – we’ll know soon enough. The wheels are in motion.
