Album Review: Gesaffelstein - Aleph

Producing just a couple of tracks on Kanye's Yeezus seems to have given French producer Gesaffelstein the opportunity to graduate from releasing twelves on underground labels. He makes his major label debut with an album of dark and thoroughly nasty techno, where compressed beats are designed to pummel listeners with rough and raw aggression. While the only real purpose of a lot of EDM bangerz is to address massive stadium-sized festival-going audiences, Gesaffelstein pulls away from this impulse and introduces subtle layers of synthesised atmospherics that add plenty of depth to the mix. A well-rounded techno LP that's more Detroit and less Deadmau5.