Albums
December: 18 albums you need to hear this month
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Illum Sphere 'Glass' (Ninja Tune)
Ryan Hunn is one of the best crate-digging DJs around, and the depth and breadth of his selection is jaw-dropping every time. As a producer, he’s moved through various phases: initially built around wonderfully uneven rhythms, then tending to hefty synth-house pumpers, now spacing out with intricate layers of what sound like hardware modular synths all over the shop. His skills with texture and track structure are now through the roof. Although the sounds are very 70s/early 80s, the intricacy and gloss is fully futurist. The topline melodies, though, are very simplistic. If they’d have been more expansive this could have been a masterpiece; as it is, it’s still a lush, embracing listen, with several properly transporting moments. Joe Muggs
7/10
