Album Review: Plutonic Lab - Deep Above The Noise

15 June 2016 | 4:54 pm | James d'Apice

"We came to know Plutonic Lab as a maker of beats for rappers; his works being defined by the voices put on top of them."

For some, instrumental hip hop is where we, as a musical nation, put our best foot forward.

Plutonic Lab is doing his bit to strengthen the argument. Leigh Ryan came up over a decade ago. Here he shows that he can pull of his old tricks (like straight up banger Sliced Bread) at the same time as showing us new ones (like the sparse brutality of Pushin). Sirens is not about police brutality as it would have been in 2005. It is a seductive sea serenade; moody and deadly. We came to know Plutonic Lab as a maker of beats for rappers; his works being defined by the voices put on top of them. This record shows he is vastly more than that.