Sun Glitters – Scattered Into Light

Sun Glitters is the alias of Luxembourg's Victor Ferreira, who has carved out a niche for himself in the post-dubstep and chillwave micro-genres with light-filled, airy productions combining neo-shoegaze vocals and pitch-bent R 'n' B melodies with complex, glitch-filled beats. On his debut for Mush Records, home at one time or another to the likes of cLOUDDEAD, Thavius Beck and Bibio, he proves why his studied take on this sometimes blandly chilled genre is head and shoulders above his peers.

Sara Cappai's singing anchors the record, pulled into dream-like choral shapes by Ferreira. The beats are suffused with heavenly static, chopped into polyrhythmic patterns that nod to early Anticon, classic Warp, and Tri-Angle's witchy take on R 'n' B, while maintaining a unique identity all their own; on an exquisite acoustic closer, beats are constructed by rubbing coins together. Minimal in places, mind-expanding in others, this is an impressive, richly-textured album from a singular talent. [Bram E. Gieben]