Electronic Sound May 2015 (Regular Edition) | Page 21

become a recreational element that
millions are immersed in.

SQUAREPUSHER
Damogen Furies
WARP
Album number 14 sees Mr Jenkinson
stripping down the kit list and ferociously
nailing tracks in one take
Apart from last year’s ‘Music For Robots’
EP (an EP of music, as you may have
guessed, written for and performed by
three robots), all has been quiet from
Tom Jenkinson, aka Squarepusher, since
2012’s ‘Ufabulum’. That said, three years
is no time at all these days; technology
has upgraded, but there have been no
vaulting new developments in terms of
electronic content.
So perhaps it’s of no great historical and
cultural consequence that Jenkinson
has made an album crammed full of
the usual Warp tropes of fast-cut beep
’n’ glitch with a few additional knobs
on, one which occupies a space station
farther out than most electronica,
but nonetheless remains somewhat
stationary. It’s a record that satisfies
rather than confounds, consolidates
rather than expands.
Still, ‘Damogen Furies’ is packed with
blistering drama, each of the eight tracks )