Burden – The Circle’s End LP

Techno’s very own London left-fielder Andrea Greco aka Burden unburdens himself of the tired old techno EP format with his first ever album through Planet Rhythm, entitled The Circle’s End. Paradoxically named but making sense in practice, you’ve but six long-haul endurance tests to try out here: ‘Bewitched’ and ‘Long Coming’ lure us in with their soft-bellied but hard-ribbed undertows, followed by a tricksy title track topped by what sounds like a peaking modular synthetic light display. ‘Probe’ curves the flight path with an unpredictable jink towards impactful but arcane FX design with a decided rhythmic focus; ‘Optimism Of The Will’ and ‘Rite’ further take this tonal shift towards conclusively tribalistic ends. A focused debut LP statement from the London firebird, with much love poured in.