Darren Cunningham’s eagerly-awaited new album is an adventurous, ultra-modern, thoroughly British affair, rummaging about in the inner lives of house and techno, and brilliantly elaborating the accomplishments of his debut, Hazyville. Determinedly off-the-map and resistant to pigeonholing, Cunningham is an enigmatic and playful figure, citing Francis Bacon and Monet as inspirations alongside Theo Parrish, Anthony 'Shake' Shakir, Daft Punk, ‘binary codes and numeral systems’, and The Avengers. He's a hard man to pin down — somehow a key player in the post-dubstep diaspora and yet not there at all — but everything comes across in his shape-shifting, richly textured music. The South Londoner’s acclaimed debut lived up to its name: a series of dream-like sketches and ideas. For Splazsh the fog has lifted, the sounds are less submerged than before, but still sticky and close — a signature combination of exuberance and introversion, luminescence and puzzlement. Unconstrained by the formal cliches of the dance music