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Vegyn: The Road to Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions review – steely relentlessness and glossy melodies
An engaging, 90s trip-hop-inspired turn from the English producer combines fractured storytelling and long instrumental passages
Thirty-year-old English producer Joe Thornalley (son of ex-Cure bassist Phil) is best known for working with Frank Ocean, back when the singer made albums. The preponderance of sharp drum breaks on The Road to Hell… is reminiscent of 90s trip-hop – the brighter, trancey west-coast US productions, rather than smoky Brooklyn-via-Bristol beats. It gives his work a steely relentlessness that plays nicely against a glossy melody, especially on Léa Sen’s lovely Turn Me Inside and John Glacier’s murmuring, insistent A Dream Goes On Forever.
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