Creatures

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AlbumFeb 09 / 201512 songs, 49m 54s73%
IDM Synthpop

The return of Rone with a brand new LP for 2015, following on from the Apache EP on InFiné Music in 2014. The label, which has already handled two of Rone's LPs, Spanish Breakfast and Tohu Bohu, will take on the forthcoming full-length. Rone has called on a diverse range of contributors, including Bryce Dessner of The National, Japanese avant-garde trumpeter Toshinori Kondo and French singer/songwriter Etienne Daho.

6.2 / 10

On his third full-length Creatures, producer Erwan Castex—who records as Rone—doubles down on the in-betweenness of his compositions, music that often exists as a combination of beatmaking, ambient composition, and synth-driven film scores.

French-born, Berlin-bred producer Rone creates music that slowly drifts into the unknown and otherworldly, with the scratchy, Aphex Twin-like flecks of glitch and other post-laptop touches gently messing with time and space.

9 / 10

After releasing no less than seven EPs in as many years, as well as two full-lengths and contributions to the National's acclaimed sixth stu...