Contemporary album of the month: Walton: Black Lotus

The electronic minimalist composer takes apart the sonic signatures of grime music and reassembles them with clockwork precisionThe writer Albert Goldman once observed that every dance craze – from ragtime to rumba to rave – tends to go through a similar life cycle. Each starts as slightly scandalous underground scene that is painted as a symptom of decadence and criminality. It then goes overground, reaching out beyond its core demographic. It then fades from the mainstream and st...

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