We wrote about Kwes and his col­lab­o­ra­tion with Micachu in a pre­vi­uos post.

Now we want to talk about Kwes’ EP Mean­time. The 24-year-old pro­ducer pre­sented his debut EP for Warp last month and has become one of our favourite EPs of the year, and ‘lgoyh’ is prob­a­bly the best track on it. ‘Igoyh’ closes the EP in beau­ti­ful fash­ion, with Kwes really show­cas­ing his incred­i­ble song­writ­ing abil­ity. It really floored us when we first heard it, but in real­ity the EP is exactly what he’s been promis­ing for some time now.

At it’s core ‘Igoyn’ is a soul­ful track but a lot of dif­fer­ent ele­ments have gone into it – from the celes­tial xylo­phone, to the grungy gui­tar heard under an army of lay­ers which include type­writer effects, beau­ti­fully arranged keys and more - all help­ing to con­clude a won­der­ful 7 minute escapade of sounds, colours and shapes.

Kwes has cer­tainly hit a cre­ative stride here, hav­ing worked with a long list of impres­sive acts (The xx, Joe God­dard, Damon Albarn etc), it’s great to see him out in front, show­cas­ing his tal­ents as a solo artist.

Last month Kwes dropped the first sin­gle called ‘Bashful’: