In both the US and UK, the west coast has geographically wrestled control of an ever-expanding universe billowing from the post-dubstep mushroom cloud. This side of the Atlantic, Bristol edges ascendancy. The latest to step up to the plate from an already regal line of Californian kings, meanwhile, is San Francisco-based soloist Brendan ‘Eskmo’ Angelides.
There are certain touches of déjà vu here. Large swathes of 1990s electronica shifted attention away from aiming crosshairs solely at the dancefloor with not dissimilar sonic results. Yet in blurring divides between man and machine, Angelides’s subtleties take this self-titled debut album at least partially striding into the unknown.

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