Album Review: Claptone - Charmer

German producer Claptone's debut album is as sparse as the general body of knowledge that exists about him.

The man of mystery imbues his music with the same no-nonsense production that keeps his sound deceptively simple and wholly his own. A steady pulse of deep house runs underneath all of these tracks, achieving a sense of coherence so strong that the songs seem to blend into one another on first listen. While there are highlights, like The Only Thing and The Music Got Me, Charmer is ultimately too long an album not to run into trouble with such a consistently repetitive formula. Despite this, it's an incredibly focused debut.