Lone – Natural Aerials

Matt Cutler has made many great records as Lone, with recent album Always Inside Your Head being particularly impressive. This similarly laudable EP offers fresh, alternative takes on album tracks.

The headline attraction is arguably SHERELLE’s B-side opening take on ‘Visited By Astronauts’, a wonderfully dancefloor-centric fusion of pulsing ambient chords, bittersweet lead lines and skewed D&B beats.

Predictably, Cutler hits the spot on each of his three reworks too. The ‘Mouth of God Part 2’ version of ‘Nautical Aerials’ is a rush-inducing slab of colourful breakbeat dreaminess – sunrise-ready for sure – while the ‘One Thirty Mix’ of ‘InLove2’ adds ambient techno style acid motifs and stirring pads to an extra-percussive house beat.

Throw in a terrifically meditative ambient mix of ‘Echo Paths’ and you have a great all-round EP.