Earlier this year teutonic Texan Matthew Dear surprised his fanbase with the album Asabreed, which concluded with him singing gruffly, like Johnny Cash strumming a guitar. Toronto techno star Jake Fairley has similar pretensions: he has been known to include a version of I Wanna Be Your Dog in his live sets and flaunts pop flair on his debut as Fairmont. Fairley is best known for his 2005 club hit Gazebo, a richly melodic late-night epic. It's not included here, but Mobula and Flight of the Albatross should satiate fans of his crisply produced, tuneful techno - while Pomegranite is languid and redolent of Boards of Canada. Fairley sounds like Lennon on the folk-tinged Times a Fool and for I Need Medicine, he adds a wobbly effect to his voice just to cement the allusion he is singing about drugs.