Considering that there was an eleven year gap between the last two Portishead albums, Geoff Barrow is on furiously industrious form.

Last month saw the release of the Quakers album (aka Geoff Barrow’s Block Party), and new BEAK> material is in the works. Barrow has now also launched the debut DROKK album, his collaborative project with composer Ben Salisbury. Having been yoked together to work on a soundtrack for an (eventually non-existent) film project in 2010, the pair elected to cobble together an OST of their own anyway. DROKK is inspired by Mega-City One, Judge Dredd’s dystopian stomping ground.

Fans of Symmetry’s Themes For An Imaginary Film (or, for that matter, Kuedo’s Severant) will find themselves at home. It’s a doomy, apocalyptic and sometimes kitsch collection of glowering synth work (much of the record was cooked up on the retro-as-they-come Oberheim 2 Voice Synthesizer). As Pitchfork have spotted, you can listen to the album in its entirety over at DROKK’s Bandcamp page. Click below to stream it in full.

 

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