Mysterious Canadian producer Little Snake turned heads with a few EPs on Brainfeeder that seemed to pull electronic music inside out, stretching bass-heavy rhythms out like cartoon limbs that keep expanding rather than breaking off the body. His long-awaited full-length for the label couldn't possibly have been given a more straightforward title than A Fragmented Love Story, Written by the Infinite Helix Architect. This is vast, overwhelmingly intense music that simply can't be treated as passive background music. Little Snake's approach to sound design is all-encompassing, and seems to question the very idea of audio creation, and why anyone would chose to do anything straightforward when you can make someone's stereo sound like it's eating itself. There's an enormous amount of fourth wall-breaking here, particularly due to the mangled metronome blips and volume turn-ups that appear throughout the album, not to mention the cartoonish, roller coaster-like drastic tempo changes. An early highlight is "hang in there..," which begins with scattered classical pianos and swooshing tones, then a beat accelerates into massively blown-out bass and deconstructed jungle breakbeats. Any time a more musical element pops up, like more gracious pianos, it falls down another trap door and gets electro-shocked. The entire album continues in a similar fashion, taking a very sideways approach to incorporating melodies and recognizable rhythms, then just throwing it all out the window. Flying Lotus guests on two of the record's more atmospheric tracks, and Amon Tobin contributes to the eight-minute epic "Loophole"; lesser-known producers Sabroi, Shrimpnose, and Tutara Peak also make appearances. Even with all the extra input, you would be hard-pressed to mistake this absurd, logic-defying album for anyone else's work. The Duck Amuck, if not the Hausu, of experimental bass music.