FALTY DL - Hardcourage

NYC's Drew Lustman crafts his third full-length (and first for Ninja Tune) with a sensibility heavily influenced by UK future-garage (using vocal samples in a manner similar enough to Joy Orbison, Mount Kimbie, and early/instrumental James Blake), but with an additional hyper-contemporary edge all his own.

"With new album Hardcourage, Lustman's called it again. It maps his journey from uncertainty to confidence, toward music that reaches outward rather than inward; those two words pushed together as if to boldly ring the fact that facing your fears is no walk in the park. On Hardcourage, it appears he's worked hard to loosen his thrall to jazz-like introspection-- something that often eclipsed his earlier work-- in favor of a newfound openness. And what's come with that hard-won courage is a sense of fun." - Pitchfork