When he’s not working with Bjork, Kanye West or FKA Twigs, Alejandro Ghersi is also capable of imaginative, powerful, compelling work of his own.
Last year's debut Xen showed he could also apply his trademark surreal, avant-garde, adventurous approach to beats and song structures to his own work.
On Mutant, the producer goes further along unmapped ground with a rich, dazzling, occasionally bewildering series of freewheeling sonic experimentation.
Though he’s not the first to strip beats and songs of any of their usual signifiers and indicators, there’s a bracing, exhilarating spirit to how Ghersi consistently seeks to do what you’re not supposed to do.
Tracks like Vanity and Extent turn into thrillers as they rub traditional instruments into a rich, disconcerting digital soundbed.
