Based in Melbourne, Plead’s Lebanese heritage inspires much of his output, resulting in steely, powerful drum work-outs often spiked with the rhythms and timbres of Lebanese pop and traditional Lebanese wedding music. Blending these with a hybrid mix of contemporary RnB, hard-drum and other more breakout dance styles. On ‘Pleat’s Plead’, he pushes his sound further than ever before too, stripping individual elements back to deliver a record bursting with boisterous, industrial energy. Under the guidance of label heads TSVI and Wallwork, he embeds his signature palette – Lebanese flutes, Mijwiz, vocal samples and subtle padwork – within a ruff-and-tuff drum-track framework, keeping things breathless from start to finish.