Some hear Rustie's visionary, ultra-maximalist brand of bass music and find that there's just too much going on, with few places to properly fix your attention. Over the last few months, Russell Whyte's taken steps to suggest that he, too, understands that total overload has to be occasionally tempered with, if not a sense of restraint (that would take all the fun out of it, wouldn't it?), something more conventional in form to grab hold onto. Back in March, he released a revamped version of Glass Swords single "Surph" with vocalist Nightwave doing her thing over the track's slippery synths, and now here's Aluna Francis, the singer for UK-based R&B duo AlunaGeorge, lending her voice to fellow album cut "After Light".
If "Surph" found Nightwave essentially riding the song's anthemic hook, then Francis' take on "After Light" recasts the dark stomper as something more sensual and shadowy, using her own understated high tones to assert her presence and avoid being stomped out by the track's awesomely cartoonish bass-bang chorus. If you've ever wondered whether Rustie was capable of making something that approaches the widespread accessibility of pop music, wonder no further: turns out he's been making it all along.