Best electronic albums of 2018: eighteen

18 – Surgeon – Luminosity Device (Dynamic Tension)

Brummie beatsmith Surgeon once recorded an album in the Maui jungle, which can be found by popping across North America then veering left until you get to the middle of the ocean.

Luminosity Device has all the hallmarks of Surgeon: throbbing techno machinery best listened to in a basement club in Glasgow, or under your duvet flashing your torch like a strobe.

And yet, this slow-build of an album takes it cue from the Tibetan Book Of The Dead, a nod to artistry that probably explains the twinkling sparkles of Courage To Face Up To or the haunting vocal chords of The Vibratory Waves Of External Unity.

It’s a dark, dirty yet refreshing addition to this veteran techno-head’s catalogue. And he didn’t even have to plug his Ableton into a banyan tree.
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