Claro Intelecto - Reform Club

After something of a hiatus, Manchester's Claro Intelecto is back to
release his third full-length album, Reform Club, on Delsin Records in
April 2012.


Throughout his career, the man known as Mark Stewart has always
created lush deep house and techno soundscapes awash with dubby
undercurrents. They have previously come on Boomkat's boutique label
Modern Love, whilst his recent Second Blood EP marked a Delsin debut. It
was his first real outing in some time, bar the odd remix for the likes
of Depeche Mode, The Black Dog and Delphic, and was well received by
fans of Stewart's past work, including the likes of his stripped back
Warehouse Sessions 12" series.


This new album deals in all the usual moods and textures you'd expect
from Claro Intelecto… it's warm and cuddly, comforting and inviting
right from the first track, despite the rough edges and well defined
analogue details which pervade throughout.


Building slowly but surely, it progresses through kick driven deep
house, bounces along on top of stretched out synth lines and forever
keeps the mind occupied, shape shifting before your very ears like
something with a life all its own. There are blissed out and sun kissed
moments that look to the future right at the heart of the album, but the
thing slowly rebuilds to more kinetic but just as soft-edged techno
peaks flashed with acid, icy hi-hats and ambient static in the ensuing
tracks.


Though the whole album is dreamy and sounds deeply submersed in some
foggy subterranean world, it stays dynamic and lucid with plenty of
serene melodies and celestial emotions offsetting the gently churning
beat tumbles below. Like all the full length works of Stewart, Reform
Club makes most sense when listened to from start to finish: getting
lost in its midst is surely to be one of 2012’s greatest listening
pleasures.

01. Reformed (05:03)
02. Blind Side (05:13)
03. Still Here (06:16)
04. It's Getting Late (06:45)
05. Scriptease (03:31)
06. Control (05:49)
07. Second Blood (05:48)
08. Night Of The Maniac (07:18)
09. Quite Life (07:19)

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