Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters – Tomorrow Is Another Day

Following 2012's swooning Underrated Silence, Ulrich Schauss and his occasional Engineers bandmate, guitarist and producer Mark Peters, have produced another album of such glittering, sun-drenched niceness that it sometimes borders on the twee, but for the most part, its a rich and musically complex addition to the catalogue of electronica combining diverse elements from shoegaze, folk, post-dubstep and ambient. Peters' playing in particular – gently bent and plucked strings looped and swathed in effects –  is technically brilliant, providing moments of dreamy, narcotic bliss on tracks like Das Volk Hat Keine Seele. 

Fragments of electro (on Inconvenient Truths), minimal disco (Bound By Lies) and shoegaze-y synth-pop (Walking With My Eyes Closed, which features vocals) leaven the mix, making this a diverse listen – if there are criticisms to be made, its that the tones and effects used on Peters' guitar lines are rather staid and traditional, in sharp contrast to the arrangements. A little more experimentation and this could have been a classic.