Carrier

One of 2025’s definitive electronic LPs lands on Modern Love with Carrier’s momentous debut album featuring eight elegantly rude arrangements of frictional syncopation and bodies-off-ground levity featuring Voice Actor & Memotone and summoning a noirish, jazzier frisson to his signature, wraithlike dubtech metrics and temporalities, as taught by everyone from Photek to Rhythm & Sound, Torsten Pröfrock and Burial.

Since hard-snagging our ears and feet in 2023 with 12”s for FELT and his own label, Guy Brewer’s Carrier has become the go-to project for those who had almost given up on chasing this sort of ultra-subtle but vitally distinctive new permutations in dance music. For the past two years his unpredictable variations within a style have kept us all tip-toed and seat-edge with organisations of a finely chiselled percussive palette and smouldering ambient noise that distills the salient aspects and spirits of D&B, dub techno, and electro-acoustic music with utterly unique traction. In effect, he’s enacted a clear leap of imagination and proprioception from previous work issued as part of Commix and solo as Shifted that only continues to reveal absorbing new fissures and hallucinatory psychoacoustics on this first album detail.

Previewed at Berlin Atonal ’25, ‘Rhythm Immortal’ now sees Brewer tilt the project into slower, resoundingly atmospheric realms, better to luxuriate in the instinctive guile and integer-stepping style ’n pattern of his incredible sound. At the album’s poles, a vocal cameo by cult gynoid Voice Actor follows from Gavsborg’s on a preceding 7” single to ideally model his sound’s mutability and compatibility with trip hop forms, and Memotone helps seal the deal with a hovering glow lent to ‘Offshore’, whilst Carrier jostles the reins throughout with masterful control of his thing, crisply purposed to the album canvas. In that context it’s perfectly adaptable to bodies supine or in motion, ushering a hypnagogic sway with ‘A Point Most Crucial’, and hingeing around slightest interplay of 16th note hi-hat ruffles and recoiling reverbs on ‘Outer Shell’, or blissfully stepping on knife-edge 2-step in ‘Wave After Wave’.

As fully signed up members of Carrier’s fan club we can only confirm the album lives up to its understandably high expectations, conveying a deeply personal pulse and spiritual devotion to deep end dance music, and with a rare conviction in its unspoken powers to activate the eyes-shut imagination unlike other forms, stirring atavistic, anticipatory intuitions with a wholly/holy forward steez. Unmissable stuff.