Lusine – The Waiting Room

Developing the vocal-led take on house, synth-pop and techno he developed on ’09’s A Certain Distance, Texas-born electronic producer Lusine delivers a competent, slickly realised third album for Ghostly, with guest vocals courtesy of his wife Sarah McIlwain, most notably on a gorgeous, jaunty cover of Marr/Sumner supergroup Electronic's track Get The Message.

Elsewhere, his production hints at the sonic depth of house producers past – the pulsing, laidback On Telegraph has shades of Matthew Herbert's house-themed work from the early 2000s, while Another Tomorrow, another vocal cut, employs bubbling synth lines and an ’80s electro-influenced beat to create an atmosphere akin to a mellower Com Truise.

The polished electro-disco of First Call is another instrumental highlight – the album as a whole is coherent and intelligently constructed, with no weak tracks. Lusine deftly achieves Ghostly's stated aim of producing intelligent, modern electronic pop. [Bram E. Gieben]