Primitive World mines obscure and vibrant paths on this strong new LP for Ecstatic, inspired once again by the forgotten sci-fi novels of Lawrence Durrell and finding a curious lane somehwre between Alva Noto and cubist UKFunky rhythms – we’re feeling it. Throwing himself into bouts of taut, fractious, and probing electronics on his sophomore LP, ‘The Revolt of Aphrodite’, Sam Wills uses the same palette as found on his ‘White On White LP’ – PPG Wave, Kurzweil K250, Emulator 4 and Lexicon 224 – albeit with a finer manipulation of form. Oscillating between the Alva Noto/ Anne-James Chaton-esque minimalism of ‘All This Vulgar Data’, to the cubist UKFunky rhythms in ‘Iolanthe Dances’ and Dego-like broken beats in ‘Skins Plastered With White Lead’, we end up in the curdled electronic sensuality on ’The Foetus Of a Love Song’ which gives the album a deftly imaginative and playful dimension that stands in contrast to the homogeneity of much of modern electronic music’s all-too-often blinkered dreams.