Herndon's music is body-moving and confusing, with cybernetic vocal shards crisscrossing above tracks that can recall Aphex Twin's techno contortions.
The follow up to Disclosure's 2013 debut, Settle ... flexes a fantastically upscaled vocal roster befitting the duo's arena-level success.
The latest from the U.K. duo hits harder and lower than their last album, 2010's Further, with guest-vocal turns from artists as varied as Q-Tip and St. Vincent over tracks that could've torched an outdoor rave in 1995.
Lopatin's skill at piecing together unlikely sounds for striking emotional effect is clearest of all on "Lift," a bewitching highlight whose two drum-beat melody lines gallop in different directions, at two distinct speeds, as if two minds are overlapping.