Ebbb

“I like that it can't be pigeonholed,” says Lev Ceylan of Ebbb’s genre-eschewing debut EP, All At Once. “We really do love plot twists – where it just explodes into something completely different.”

Ebbb exist in a constant state of duality and dichotomy, often ricocheting back and forth between pristine beauty and gut-rumbling noise; or even existing in both states simultaneously. This can be heard from the opening ‘Himmel’, a song that steadily builds from a choral-esque soundscape before a pneumatic drill-like beat enters, as Rowland’s voice glides with grace over the grinding rhythm. “That song encapsulates the two sides of the sound we have quite well,” says Rowland. “Having the more ethereal, dreamy vocals but with that undercurrent of the low rumblings. It’s kind of like heaven and hell.”

The five-track EP that they quickly produced is a bedroom recording, but some shabby, lo-fi recording it is not. While it contains a feeling of raw, primal energy, fuelled by a series of unfurling twists and turns, it is also meticulously crafted. “It’s like we are trying to crack some sort of formula in searching for the perfect melody,” says Rowland. “I try loads of iterations to try and get the perfect melody for each bit.”

Be it driving rhythms, mesmerising grooves, or immaculately stacked vocal layers, “there is a constant intensity with no drops in it,” Rowland says. “But that intensity can mean either the heavier stuff or the intense beauty of it.”