Steam Days
The producer of pastorlal electronic music returns with an album partway between 2006's effervescent Drowning in a Sea of Love and 2009's rougher-edged Hard Islands.
Steam Days will tide over Nathan Fake's devout fans, and will probably win him more, but it's not the strident genre-subverter we've come to expect from him.
For an artist whose first album cradled one of techno’s most evocative slow-burners to date, anything that follows is always going to be held up in comparison. With his second album neatly escaping that trap by darting towards the dancefloor, his trick with the third has been to take a step backwards into his own mind, traversing nocturnal landscapes and documenting “everything that’s gone on in [his] head for the past two years.”
This vintage tape artefact bips with all the Norfolk nostalgia that Fake initially intended, swooping through moments of jive-friendly electronica as is on display with ‘Cascade Airways’ and equal
The influence of Four Tet is palpable on Nathan Fake's third album of fluent post-techno, writes <strong>Kitty Empire</strong>