The Devil's Walk

The thoughtful German electronic musician's first album in four years arrives at a time when vocal electronic music is more popular than ever, but his melancholic, yearning phrasing occasionally pushes things closer to Coldplay than to James Blake.

While Sascha Ring is guilty of all three and has backed it up with The Devil’s Walk, an album completely divorced from the dancefloor and glitch/IDM, the shift has been gradual, not abrupt, and he happens to be composing some of the most evocative, finely detailed music of his decade-long career.

Apparat - The Devil's Walk review: More of the same from an artist simply trying to present too much of himself, when the simple option would have been far more effective.