This was recommended by the usually-reliable E. Fosl, but doesn't do a whole lot for me. The EP is a weird form for electronic music; it makes total sense for a genre in which standalone ten-minute tracks are the norm, but is just a tad too close to the appearance of an album to get away with sounding this disjointed from song to song (the ability to integrate a couple severely slammin' grooves into a totally coherent hour-long experience is exactly why I'm so high on Black Mahogani).

People who know who Steven Julien is seem to be more into this than me, either because there's some sort of context I'm missing or because fandom comes hand-in-hand with faith. The good news is that you can skip the slapped-on ambient intro and outro and form your own opinion on this thing in twenty-five minutes flat; only the title track, which sounds like a very Detroit-y take on Classical Curves, did it for me.

Highlights: Bloodline