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Deptford Goth Is The Solo Electronic Project Of Daniel Woolhouse A 27-Year-Old British Art School Graduate Who Made His Debut Last Year After Uploading A Single Track "Real Love Fastasy" To His MySpace. Up Until A Few Months Ago When He Began Work On His Debut LP For Merok Woolhouse Was Working As A Teacher's Assistant In A Primary School In South London-- Widely Recognized As The Birthplace Of Dubstep And Home To A Few Better-Known Singer-Producers Like James Blake And Jamie Woon Who Offer A Similar Hybrid Of Sluggish Club Beats Expressive Sample-Cutting Manual Key Work And Processed Vocals. The Project's Name Is Deceptive. Woolhouse Doesn't Live In The Deptford District Of London But In Nearby Peckham And He's No More Of A "goth" Than Fellow Bedroom Producers Like Holy Other OOoOO And Balam Acab-- Although They Do Share An Affinity For Melancholy Glamour And Chintzy Romance. At A Time When Cultivating An Air Of Mystery Has Become One Of The Most Transparent PR Moves In The Business We Can Read Deptford Goth's Self-Branding Attempts In One Of Two Ways. Either He Is Being Half-Hearted About It Offering Up A Few Easy Signifiers For "dark" And "dubsteppy" In An Effort To Bait Fans Of The Tri Angle/Merok Contingent Or He Is Being Overly Self-Conscious And Trying To Make A Statement About How Easy It Is To Get A Certain Group Of People To Pay Attention These Days. The Good News Is That Woolhouse Seems To Have Put A Lot More Thought Into The Four Quietly Action-Packed Synth-Pop Numbers On Youth II His First EP. For Someone Whose Stated Roots Are In Acoustic Music His Use Of Crooked Drum Programming Buttery Synths And Soulful Background Crooning Shows Economy And Restraint. These Qualities Are Especially Evident On Downtempo Opener "No Man" Which Is Full Of Pregnant Pauses. This Is Music That Builds Through The Addition And Subtraction Of Small Details Such As A Melismatic Glitch In Deptford's De Facto Auto-Tune Voice Or The Zippy Melody That Kicks In Midway Through Album Single "Real Love Fantasy"-- A Chirpy Trance Homage To Mariah Carey's "Fantasy". "Time" By Far The EP's Standout Contrasts Rocky Beats And Bass Wobble With A Very Large-Sounding Synth Melody. Vague Existential Musings About A Dead-End Relationship "I Don't Know Where I'm Going/ Guess I'm Leaving/ Time Keeps Pushing Me" Trade Off With An Almost Celebratory Refrain "I'm A Believer." As With The Similarly Worded Mantra At The Close Of John Maus' Recent We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves The Song's Poignance Hinges On The Impossibility Of Taking It Completely Seriously As The Words Come From A Processed Voice That Is Midway Between Human And Machine. EP Closer "Youth II" Offers Another Tragi-Comic Slice Of Technologically Mediated Emotion Contrasting His Clipped Vocalizations With Oceanic Synth Chords That Ultimately Say So Much More. Like Electronic Soul Stylists To Whom He Is Compared Writing For The The Guardian For Example Paul Lester Invokes The "spectral R&B" Of How To Dress Well And Holy Other And "the Dubstep Pop" Of Messrs. Blake And Woon" Deptford Goth's Music Is Partly About Making Music-- And Self-Expression In General-- In The Digital Age Yet Another Soundtrack For Lonely BitTorrent Downloading And Emoticon-Flecked Sentimentality. If You're Unfamiliar With This Sphere It's A Stirring Listen If You Know It Well It's Less So. read less