Grime has always been marked by minimal sounds, dominated by a stripped-back aesthetic that renders the slinky sounds of garage cold and foreboding and the complex rhythms of jungle more linear and propulsive. This is primarily due the production's crucial role as a rhythmic platform for the more prominent MC. Logos is at the forefront of a group of contemporary producers taking this minimalism to extremes, and his 2013 album Cold Mission was critically lauded for its beautifully sparse soundscapes. The album effectively sounds like grime if all of its aggression and rhythm was sucked out, leaving only a ghostly spectre of the genre. It is an abstract deconstruction of grime, self-consciously attempting to replicate the emotions of the sound with entirely different sensual approaches. Logos' sound has been much repeated in the couple of years since, but Cold Mission is still the strongest collection of tracks exploring this style.
