Pole - 1 Artist_Big Thief If R Plus Seven was

If R Plus Seven was all crystalline arpeggiators and Garden of Delete was a feverish upchuck of gurgling synths

Perhaps more than anything

a listener unaware that it was a Sun Ra composition could be forgiven for thinking it was a parody of a punk rock anthem

followed by 2019’s equally acclaimed Kingdom In Colour

familiar yet novel

Pole - 1 Artist_Big Thief If R Plus Seven wasStefan Betke's nine variations on damaged dub minimalism recall the best of Basic Channel techno while steering well clear of the monotony factor. As with Pole's first singles, these tracks materialize out of a haze of stuttering fuzz, bouncing thin shimmers of echoing synth off of ambiguous rhythms and taught, bulging bass. An excellent debut.