Ultravisitor

After repeated listens, Squarepusher’s latest offering conjures up an image of shaven-headed nerds smirking knowingly to themselves as they rearrange their collection of Skam rarities into alphabetical order while Tom Jenkinson heads off on another extended live bass guitar solo. The album veers between his trademark heart attack drum and bass/glitch hop and spastic jazz/acoustic wandering – occasional moments of brilliance, tempered by said boring solos and utterly odd musical wankery. There is no doubt Jenkins is a maverick – a flawed genius that thrives on the unpredictable, one who enjoys both confusing casual fans who have been told he’s today’s Stockhausen and delighting those who think he is. hotpress is both impressed and baffled by this odditity – billed as ‘the album of his career’. For some, it may be just that, but it’s not likely we’ll be listening to this again all that readily.