Kitty Empire 

Nathan Fake: Steam Days – review

The influence of Four Tet is palpable on Nathan Fake's third album of fluent post-techno, writes Kitty Empire
  
  


Oh, that name, which suggests a painfully hip Hoxton ironist. Nathan Fake, though, is the nom de guerre of a precocious Norfolk child raised almost solely on Warp Records: an author of (now) three albums of blithe, fluent post-techno and inventive remixer who Radiohead recently let loose on their The King of Limbs. Midway through Steam Days, Harnser does dark pizzicato things befitting a 90s warehouse rave, while elsewhere, the analogue-melting-into-digital influence of Four Tet is palpable. Fake is his own man, though. Two tracks here celebrate his Norfolk roots, Iceni Strings most impressively.

 

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