Review of Ultravisitor

So you fink you're 'ard do ya?

This album is, without question, Tom Jenkinson's finest. Ultravisitor was my gateway into the world of Squarepusher, but it's a whole lot more than just a crash course into his music. The album begins with a handful of 'smart' electro songs that lure you into a false sense of security, before the middle section of the album smashes your ears to pieces. The final third of this album returns to the more intelligent tracks that are easier to listen to and give you time to recover from the noise in the middle.

There's not much of the funk that graces his previous albums here, instead he has strung together an album full of glitchy electro melodies, and some of his tracks are amongst the greatest electro tracks I've ever heard. Songs like Ultravisitor and Tetra-Sync are simply fantastic tracks that would unabashedly find themselves amongst my favourites of all time. It's just music I could never get bored of listening to.

I couldn't give it the full 10/10 because of some of the tracks in the middle, they're just abrasive noise numbers that are not at all up my street. I wish that section was more user friendly! I might even have recommended the album to friends then. When you compare Squarepusher's latest two albums to this, they pale into insignificance. It seems Ultravisitor was the zenith of his creative genius.

9/10

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Added by Grand Assault 3 months ago on 31 July 2009 02:59