Kurtis Hairston, a Brooklynite in Berlin, has explored huge ranges of electronic music over his sporadic releases – achieving great emotional depth, and managing to make his music politically charged in particular with what it means to be an African-American in an overwhelmingly white cultural milieu. But this 2016 album is something else: bringing his own and his friends’ vocals to the fore, adding high-drama, distinctly Radiohead-ish song structures, and bringing his production techniques to new levels, he delivered something that works on every level at once. Intellectual, emotional and bodily impact fuse together perfectly on this absolute masterpiece.