Luke Vibert - Chicago, Detroit, Redruth

Luke Vibert's status as an electronic music virtuoso is based on the quality he's produced over the duration of his career and also on the stylistic scope of his creative abilities. Having worked under many pseudonyms over the years to accommodate his multi-genre excursions, he also uses his own name to release albums that demonstrate his genre-hopping. It's to his credit that despite a potential incoherence in tone across these genres this music still bears a very clear authorial mark. It's hard to mistake this for anything but a Vibert album, but that's both its strength and weakness. Nothing stands out as new ground here for him, although that's a meagre niggle considering the vast ground covered, new or not; victimising him on preconceived notions of his own progressive standards, ignoring his existing malleability and pervasiveness. Not his best but nevertheless a fine addition to his exemplary back catalogue. [Jack McFarlane]