The Grand Electric Palace of Variety

Hailing from Portsmouth, Christopher Reeves developed an interest for electronic music while at a very young age, and began experimenting with tapes of old classical recordings, slicing them up and reassembling them to form intricate and often slightly dark constructions. While Reeves’s first offering for Planet Mu, Remedial, was assembled by Mike Paradinas from a handful of demos, this new album demonstrate a more focused approach. Still very much under the influence of Aphex Twin and µ-ziq, whom he often references, Reeves is given the opportunity to let his personally filter through more openly. The sonic palette used ranges from deep isolationist moments to beautiful melodic compositions to fractured beat constructions, yet remains extremely consistent all the way through. Often playing with loops and repetitions, Reeves creates a series of disturbing pieces by using recurring themes, from dissected choir and strings sections to melodic patterns, which are occasionally set on a collision course with more traditional electronic forms. (themilkfactory.com)