Rustie ‎– Glass Swords

This isn't an album; it's an electronic epic on par with FlyLo's L.A. or Cosmogramma, or AFX's DruQs, or early Squarepusher, etc. etc. These 13 tracks take you by the hand on a journey through the Technicolor cosmos that Rustie creates here, a landscape made up of bits of dubstep, retro-modern synths, samples from hip-hop, ambient, and who the hell knows what else; all twisted and turned on their head. Again, like Steven Ellison, he does not follow genre trends. Just in the way FlyLo's first few EPs redefined instrumental hip-hop production, Rustie takes the electronica trends of today and re-imagines composition, flow, pacing, and emotion in an EDM album. Flying in the face of the gloomy urban soundscapes of Kryptic Minds or Burial, this album is a schizophrenic joyride, with tracks that wouldn't sound out of place in a Mario Sunshine or Galaxy game, provided you turned the colors and bass way up on those titles, and unhinged them a bit more from reality.

In short, Warp has still got it. They remain lightyears, parsecs, AUs ahead of any other electronic label. If I had one complaint, it would be that this album reminds me that I live on boring Earth, and not the neon, saccharine world of Glass Swords.

One of the best albums of 2011! This one has it all. Trancestrings, 80's guitarsolo's, great beats. It's a fantastic album. Glasgow has it all in 2011!