Reality testing

"The success at the heart of 'Reality Testing' lies in the way it unites the grainy fluidity, sample sources and black music heritage both genres share. 'Restless City', for example, has jazzy chords and drums that bounce along like a J Dilla production at house pace, akin to the work of Slum Village DJ turned house producer Andrés, while 'Aurora Northern Quarter' mixes Italo house keyboards with boom bap beats. In lesser hands this might feel like an exercise in academic beatsmithery. But Lone coats everything in the same Orbital-esque melodies that made 2012's 'Galaxy Garden' such a winner".

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"His dance credentials already assured, this feels like Cutler reasserting his artistry; an exercise in expressive revivalism, where myriad influences are sketched from memory; an album whose headline proposition is new, despite the ageing origins of its component parts".

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