A View Of U vinyl

The ninth solo album from Machinedrum aka LA-based Travis Stewart sees him calling in an army of collaborators and encompassing a wide spectrum of underground styles from drum & bass and dubstep to trap and hip-hop into his musical vision. They key tracks? Well, there's a whole bunch of them here, from the breezy, sunny drum & bass effort '1000 Miles', produced in ;league with Subfocus and the glitchy trap strains of 'Spin Blocks', admirably voiced by Father of Awful Records fame to the more abstract groove glories of 'Sleepy Pietro' with Armenian jazz pianist Tigran Hamasyan. But ultimately it's more than a sum of its parts, and the variety contained within only strengthens its overall offering and creates a fresh, constantly evolving listening journey.