Forget Me Not / By My Side

Following on from the success of debut single 'One More Hit', Pattern Perception comes with this juicy double-header. All three tracks are in advance of PP's forthcoming album 'Spectrum Disorder', coming out on 4th July. Out Yer Box has unearthed a seriously important new leftfield talent here.

Pattern Perception's last single 'One More Hit' became a viral meme on TikTok, and also led to Chris Hawkins on BBC Radio 6Music naming it his Track Of Dawn one morning. Chris introduced PP as being "also known as Dave from Birmingham", but at this point we'd like to correct the record — Dave Patterns is actually from Tipton, which is at least nine miles from Birmingham. Sorry about that, Dave. This has created some local controversy in the Midlands, but at troubling times like these the last thing we need is easily avoidable Black Country discord.

The Tipton Titan starts 'Forget Me Not' with shuffly breaks and a deep Reese bassline, a sultry female vox offsetting the cinematic, atmospheric breakbeat panorama. The track increases in intensity as it progresses, a perfect radio record that is sure to be picked up by some of the more discerning radio jocks out there.

'By My Side' is more deep and rolling, pivoting around a burrowing b-line and crisp beats. The vocals again counterpoint the instrumentation perfectly, illuminating a widescreen vision that could be straight out of recent TV series Top Boy or This City Is Ours — except that they weren't set in Tipton. Or Birmingham, for that matter. But that doesn't matter, you get the idea. Leftfield cityscapes to transport you to another dimension.

1. Pattern Perception - Forget Me Not
2. Pattern Perception - By My Side
3. Pattern Perception - Forget Me Not (Radio Edit)