UKF Dubstep is still the front door for anyone who wants the genre done properly, and En:vy’s Call Me is a reminder of why I keep coming back. This is melodic dubstep that actually remembers the melodic part is supposed to gut you before the bass shows up to finish the job. The intro is almost pretty. There’s a vocal floating over a piano line that lulls you into thinking this might be a nice song. Then the drop arrives and it is not nice at all. The bass design is filthy in that precise, surgical way the good UK producers manage, where it sounds enormous but never muddy. I’ve heard a hundred tracks with this structure and most of them feel like a formula. This one feels like En:vy actually meant it. The second drop adds a layer of growl that wasn’t there the first time, which is the small detail that separates a real producer from someone running presets. Call Me is the kind of dubstep that converts skeptics. Send it to your friend who thinks the genre died in 2012.
En:vy is no stranger to this blog. Last time: En:vy - Medieval