@ZoobleFan13_ if any "mainstream" name is my fav rn it's truly them, anything else i love dubstep wise is pretty disconnected from that scene like olswel, tashka, O-Prime-Delta. some Team Mekano and Dj Daddy Yonqui, that one shadow wizard money gang song etc...
@graphicleftist@chloetheflower sound design is PART of why they're imo the best writers but far from the only aspect, arguably 80% of dubstep is on an equal footing sound design wise, imo they just write better like i argued in the replies, sound design and songwriting work in tandem they're not the same thing
@TheMothership3K imo it's def a lil bit of proper preperation but they have a sauce to their writing style not really found within other acts atm that does a whole lot more for their swagger than their polish ithink
also smth i just have to praise em on seperately is that their shit flows so fucking nicely, one of the first dubstep acts i've checked in a while that manages to understand how much detailing/interchanging ur drums and fills matters to the overall depth of ur track
they're not the most sonically unique act but goddamn bruh they rlly write in a way that i sorely missed in this scene, it's rlly only a simple command of managing to make ur tracks flow and feel like connective tissue instead of a means to a drop but still man i needed this