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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nFinally something new from cubus ! The duo of Dimitris Avramidis and Ross Baker, better known as Middlemarch, join the Carpe Sonum roster after the quietly devastating Wolf Hall, issued on Time Released Sound in 2014. This disc of remixes retains the magisterial heft and splendor of that sterling debut, with all the album\u2019s participants building on the duo\u2019s template while adding numerous idiosyncratic touches of their own. The opening \u201cVisitation\u201d, strangely enough, doesn\u2019t really prepare you for the detached, pixillated sparsescape of \u201cThe Dead Complain of their Burial\u201d but its cinematic vocabulary is as revealing in its own atmospheric way as its predecessor. Across the record\u2019s timespan, the collective of remixers that includes Mick Chillage, Maps and Diagrams, Darren McClure, Ambidextrous, Neotropic, Off Land, and others wrestle with the duo\u2019s blossoming & Budd-ing tendencies, reflecting the subtly shifting piano motifs and flurrying electronic textures in their own inimitable fashion. Chillage especially shines, as his interpretation of \u201cA Painter\u2019s Eye\u201d is a thing of regal beauty. Neotropic\u2019s post-classical side is also especially notable, as her version of \u201cVisitation” channels a strange, quasi-glitchy\/ivory-tickled hybrid, maximizing a myriad of odd warbles and Derbyshire-esque touches to produce over six minutes of pure pleasure. So rarely do remix albums succeed on their own merits; here\u2019s one where the sum easily transcends its component parts, setting a new gold standard by which successive others will no doubt be judged.<\/p>\n