(Hyperdub)
This is a mellowing of, arguably, dubstep's premier practitioner -- formerly anonymous twiddler and Four Tet schoolmate William Bevan. Though it has moments of obliquely pretty affect, more ambitiously fragmented and screwed than the numerous works of lesser artists in Bevan's wake, and is certainly a technically strong performance -- divided in two lengthy suites of clipped, soulful noise and an afterword -- it still doesn't work for me. Expansive though it is, it seems to be to be drilling further and further down a clanging, arrhythmic road I can't go down -- but it's got an 89 or something on Metacritic so file this under "things I felt obligated to acknowledge here but don't really have a strong feeling about or desire to ever listen to again."
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