Anxious CD

Since first coming to our attention back in 2012 with debut single Blindness, Rodhad has delivered a string of EPs focusing on dark, otherworldly, industrial influenced techno. While the dancefloor has remained his priority throughout, there have been occasional deviations from the blueprint; creepy ambient escapades that hint at a wider palette of influences. Even so, it's a little bit of a surprise to find that this debut album contains very few bleak and dystopian club jams. Instead, these rare - if predictably impressive - moments are sandwiched between unsettling but thoughtful soundscapes that seemingly draw influence from industrial-era ambient, futurist horror soundtracks, moody IDM and - on sublime closer "Cast A Shadow" - the paranoid work of prolific producer Dominic Fenrow.