Karenn – Grapefruit Regret

Ripe for the club.Arthur Cayzer and Jamie Roberts were in their early 20s when they released “Auflen Whip,” a cavernous, clanking techno track from an EP that helped shape the style’s future. You may have been the same age or younger, possibly burning through a student loan at cosy club nights soundtracked by a new wave of artists pushing mutant house and techno produced in the so-called “post-dubstep” era. Better known as Blawan, Roberts was among the best known of these acts at the time, mostly thanks to his ubiquitous 2011 smash “Getting Me Down,” a sugary house track with a mean streak. That mean streak colours Karenn’s productions today, though, as the snarling “Crush The Mushrooms” from their new album shows, the sound is far slicker than what we danced to eight years ago. Karenn have grown up, and so have we