Kevin Martin’s vast catalogue really benefits from hearing it as a gesamtkunstwerk as Richard Wagner liked to put it – a “total artwork” spanning across the various releases in which different motifs and sounds ebb and flow and change in relation to one another. Even just his work as The Bug through the 21st century has examined ideas over and over: minimalist industrial dub, dubstep and dancehall of course, but also hammering snare repetitions adapted from Schooly D’s “P.S.K. What Does it Mean?”, smoggy clouds of reverb redolent of My Bloody Valentine and Fennesz – which he has taken to extremes in the King Midas Sound project too – and so on. This 2024 LP is the first The Bug LP as such not to use vocalists, and it continues to find ever more mileage in all of the above mentioned sounds, as well as the cyborg desert blues Martin explored in his 2018 collaboration with Earth. This is the sound of a fearsomely pure artistic vision that needs to be nothing else other than itself.