So alongside drum machines there are field recordings and some rhythmic vocal things, like beatboxing. The tracks on the album have an electronic authority, but they’re also blended with organic sounds. When I started making the DRUM pack, the sounds of that album were still very fresh in my head. Your new Loopcloud DRUM expansion is based on the beats you made for Blizzards. Blizzards is the most percussion-focused album in the musician’s catalogue, making it the perfect inspiration for a debut DRUM pack – Blizzard Drums. Since then, Nathan has toured extensively, remixed artists like Radiohead and Jon Hopkins and released two further albums. Multiple EPs and three albums followed on the label, all displaying Fake’s signature wistful and elegant club charm, before he established his own label, Cambria Instruments, in 2014. I started working on music straight away, and I’ve been putting it together since then.”Ī sixth album would be yet another achievement in a music career that dates back to 2003, when Nathan released his first single, “ Outhouse,” through James Holden’s then embryonic label Border Community.

It’s been a couple of years since the last album – it came out at the start of the pandemic when I wasn’t touring. A few of the tracks are properly finished, and I’m just deciding which of the other songs I want to properly focus on and finish now. “I’m working on my sixth album at the moment. When we caught up with the electronica artist from Norfolk, UK over Zoom, however, it’s immediately obvious that he’s chosen to do nothing of the sort. After releasing his fifth album, Blizzards, in 2020 - an LP that spawned a companion EP, a delayed live show, and now a Loopcloud DRUM pack - Nathan Fake would be forgiven for resting on his laurels.

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