Review: Second time around for Chris Clark's third full-length, 2006's Body Riddle, which remains one of the St Albans-born experimentalist's strongest works. This double-disc edition offers up a fully remastered version of the album on disc one, allowing us to listen in wonder once more to the set's blend of skittish, soft-focus, jazz-fired drums (a nod to Four Tet perhaps, or the then contemporaneous nu-jazz movement), lilting strings, classic IDM electronics, creepy ambient chords, trippy melodies, lo-fi sounds and nods towards the LA beat-making scene. More exciting for committed fans is the accompanying second disc, which bundles rarities and unreleased archive tracks from the period with a handful of brand-new cuts.
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