Prefuse 73 – The Only She Chapters

Followers of Guillermo Scott Herren’s work as leftfield electronica conjurer Prefuse 73 will naturally expect the unexpected, but his latest full-length under the guise is truly a puzzle to get all Sherlock Holmes over. Titled The Only She Chapters (each track name is prefixed with 'The Only...’, but we'll stick with the latter half of the titles here), it largely abandons the modular hip-hop constructions of his last few releases in order to build a labyrinth of sensual textures with percussion and obfuscated female vocal parts.

Featuring no fewer than seven vocalists, each contribution is absorbed by Herren's brew like a chopped ingredient, so that you might not recognise the voice of late Broadcast singer Trish Keenan on the fiendish Trial of 9000 Suns, or the fractured wail of Zola Jesus on Direction In Concrete. Strange and impenetrable though it can be, this is Prefuse 73 at his most compelling – an exemplary snapshot of modern psychedelia. [Martin Skivington]