PREMIERE : Sun Sone - Apogee

Les Yeux Orange

London based imprint and party collective Earthy Measures has been around since 2016, making terrestrial ruminations and humid vibrations, bringing native planet songs made for open spaces, ears, hearts and minds to mingle and merge to. The album ‘Patience’ is the debut release from Sun Sone, the project of London-born electronic producer Luke Martin. Drawing influences from hip-hop, downtempo, neo-soul, and trip-hop, the beginning of his inspiration came from the L.A Beat scene and the artists that stemmed from it like Flying Lotus, Clap Clap! Knxwledge, Jai Paul, Kutmah and Photay. Using percussive elements and instruments from different parts of the world, pressing them together to create a sound which is familiar but also alien. ‘Patience’ refers to the time it took to write, spanning 10 years while he honed his craft, the album is set to drop at the end of the year, these three singles will drop one a month ahead of the full release in December. The first is Apogee - Sometimes it’s nicer not understanding the lyrics. It means you can attach your own meaning to the music and hear the vocals as simply another instrument. There’s something personal about this. The guitar parts were reversed simply as an experiment, but it ended up informing the structure and melody of the song entirely. It was one of those beautiful and lucky moments where a single piece falls in the right place, and the rest of the track just flows in a stream of consciousness.