Falty DL – Hardcourage

New York's Drew Lustman, aka Falty DL, likes to mess with people's expectations. Influenced by house, garage, RnB and future bass, he never settles on one style, preferring to infuse each track with a range of influences. On 2011's Atlantis EP he almost nailed it, with a collection of tracks with a smooth, polished feel that belied their experimental bent. On his warm, inviting, third full-length album Hardcourage, he seems to have got the formula exactly right.

She Sleeps, which features a silky vocal from Friendly fires vocalist Ed McFarlane, manages just the right mixture of summery, electronic indie-pop and smooth house. Straight & Arrow's chopped and filtered vocals lurch infectiously away from the shuffled, low-tempo house beat. Uncea is shimmering, synth-led post-dubstep a la early Martyn, with a garage-flavoured bassline, while the organic, deep house bass of Finally Some Shit / The Rain Stopped is utterly addictive. Solid and inventive.