Airhead Is Now Post-Post Dubstep

It's a familiar trajectory for downtempo producers: They offer up a few elegant chill-out releases, start playing more DJ gigs, and realize the joys of rocking a crowd with huge bangers. Before you know it, they're making club tracks themselves. It looks like Airhead has gone that way, as his new EP deals in DJ-friendly beats rather than pensive rhythms with acoustic flourishes, like his breakout jam "Wait." According to a press release, the change-up was inspired by the Londoner's residency at 1-800 Dinosaur, the club night-turned-record label managed by Dan Foat and inaugurated by James Blake. The record, Believe, reflects the party's focus on garage, dubstep, and house: the title track's four-on-the-floor beat collapses into trenches of rumbling low end, and "Shirin" pits a menacing grime melody against a rotund dub bassline. Peep the player below to listen to the whole EP, which drops next week on 1-800 Dinosaur.

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