2013. Electronix. After his recent collaborations with Brian Eno and King Creosote (on the Mercury-nominated 2011 album Diamond Mine), you could be forgiven for approaching Immunity, Jon Hopkins's fourth solo album, expecting another soothing collection of intimate songs - the sonic equivalent of tasteful, aural wallpaper. The first sounds you hear on Immunity suggest these expectations might not be too wide of the mark - a key in the door (of Hopkins' East London studio) and then the door slamming; exactly the sort of found-sound trimmings that epitomised Diamond Mine and his work with Eno. So it was something of a surprise that two minutes later I found myself jerking around my living room like a loony, checking the Fabric listings as 'We Disappear' did its level best to force me out of my house and into the night to go raving. Glitchy beats on the outer limits of jackin' techno join a symphony of emotive synths and demented bleeps and bloops for a club-friendly take on the crunchy, complex alien electro th
Tracks
1. A1: We disappear 2. A2: Open eye signal 3. B1: Breathe this air 4. B2: Collider 1. C1: Abandon window 2. C2: From by firelight 3. D1: Sun harmonics 4. D2: Immunity