As Actress, Darren Cunningham has exclusively chosen to venture into electronic music’s margins, focusing on mood and inference rather anything as gauche as making people want to dance. This is what made the inclusion of vocals such a jarring sidestep on 2020’s Karma and Desire, but that direction of travel is largely reversed on the his first EP since 2014, on which guesswork is oncer again the dominant listener theme.
At six tracks but with two of those being edits, in reality focus centres around just two, the sprawling eighteen minute odyssey which is the opener and Dream, a near-orthodox four to the floor slice of banging techno that makes you feel like you’ve ended up with the wrong record. The former though is more illustrative of the terms Cunningham usually sets, a morphing tryptic that blends white noise, sountrack menace and haunted club echoes into a tangle of avant garde electronica. Uncompromising and with an orbit all of it’s own, Dummy Corporation is satisfyingly odd.
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