Robert Burbidge, Winter, Mikey B ... Release Lock Step & Medicine: A Dystopian Anthem for Our Times
[ Tangential Music 19 November 2025 ]
https://bfan.link/lock-step
Robert Burbidge and Mikey B return with LOCKSTEP, a bold new release that fuses martial drums with sustained horns, sweeping strings, and anthemic vocals to create a sound both ceremonial and unsettling.
Featuring standout performances from The Haggis Horns — with Malcolm Strachan on brass and Atholl Ransome on tenor sax — the track expands into widescreen territory. Contributions from Morgan O’Shaughnessey (strings), Ian Stanford (guitar), Erroll Rollins (drums), and a textured foundation of piano, percussion, and bass give LOCKSTEP its depth and cinematic scope.
At once processional and incantatory, LOCKSTEP explores the aesthetics of ceremony: a song whose very familiarity carries an uneasy resonance. It’s an anthem crafted to echo the “soft dystopia” of our present condition — simultaneously stirring and disquieting.
Robert Burbidge and Mikey B are collaborators whose work blends genre-defying composition with evocative storytelling. Their music challenges conventions while creating immersive, resonant soundscapes.
Artwork by Mike Bush
Lockstep Mixed and engineered by Iggyb.
Medicine produced and mixed by HBUG.
Mastered by DENNIS Moody.
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