A stroll through Lone’s Galaxy Garden is a adventurous journey full of unexpected twists and turns.

The new album by Manchester (UK) based producer Lone (Matt Cutler) combines intricate, percussive and at times frenetic beat signatures with beautiful, celestial melodies and the occasional sprinkle of field recordings.

On Dream Girl/Sky Surfer an ethereal melody walks hand in hand with ragged beat and tabla percussion which, halfway through the track, slows down to a Balearic mid-tempo disco groove. The Animal Pattern is a fine combination of rattling percussion, dissonant synthesizer stabs and a hazy melody with bird and water sounds providing a nice organic twist. The babbling water and tabla percussion return on As A Child (with Machinedrum on vocals). The melancholic vocals and emotive melody really makes one reminisce. Machinedrum…

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