Although his earlier releases for Worm Interface, Warp, and Skam were notable for their blunt abuse of rhythmic convention,
Simon Pyke's second full-length for WI (his first being
Elastic Speakers) is a minimal question mark of apparently beatless (thought not lacking in percussion) ambient/electronica. Constraining himself to only three or four textural flavors through the course of 12 tracks,
Pyke constructs a fascinating series of sonic vignettes (many under three or four minutes), each like a little sonic puzzle the logic of which is slowly revealed through repeat listenings. Quite a bit different, then, from the audacity of his previous work, but fantastic nonetheless.