For his third long-play, the Scottish producer departed from his minimal electro-safety zone to deliver once more a myriad of textures and beats, set into 14 cuts, that explore the possibilities of convened formulas. One of the most attractive things in ‘Lux’, as on any other Smoke production, is the inherent characteristic of bending the limits of genres. The young producer painstakingly takes the basis of what is commonly known as minimal and then fills it with the most challenging textures.
The cuts in ‘Lux’ stay within the thin boundary line between generic over-edited beats and genuinely well-considered rhythmic constructions, which ultimately give a compelling ambivalence to the album. On one hand, certain tracks sound expendable, for instance ‘Equate’, which seems to recycle and rearrange parts of the previous tracks; on the other hand, when the soft harmonies in ‘Nothing Changes’ and ‘Physic’ appear in the second part of the album, they come as a tender farewell. The only thing missing being more string arrangements that only Smoke is capable of delivering.
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