Machine Drum has crafted one of the albums of the year, lifting freely from everything that is hip in the electronic world and combining with footwork undertones to create an exhilirating opus. Being Machine Drum, the attention to detail is faultless. Like Prefuse 73, he succeeds in blurring the distinction between rhythm and melody. The album centres around the surprisingly anthemic 'Gbye', with ingenious use of vocal samples harking back to his earliest work. If something as niche as electronica could have a zeitgeist, this would have captured it.
9/10
For fans of: Prefuse 73, Mount Kimbie
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