- More gorgeous futurism and gleaming electronics from the Welsh producer.
- For Lewis Roberts, a year between releases is a borderline whiplash-inducing turnaround time. The Welsh producer—a legend to a certain corner of electronic music fans—finally dropped his debut album Agor last year, after a decade of slowly rolling out out warped epics on his own and behind-the-scenes work with artists like FKA Twigs and David Byrne.
His new track, "Droids," arrives just under 13 months after that hotly anticipated LP. The single shies away from the vocal chop-driven sound he explored on prior standalone cuts like "4D" and "Lost In Tokyo." This one wears an obvious ‘80s influence on its sleeve, thanks to the pairing of glassy pads and twitching synth leads. In the spirit of its sci-fi title, it would make for a fitting score to a chintzy adventure movie set in some far off solar system. For Koreless—an artist whose sound tends to elicit equal doses of melancholy and euphoria—it's a surprisingly rhythmic and cyber-dystopian change of pace, highlighting Lewis's dexterity not only as a producer, but as a composer as well.