Elusive - Horizons (2020)

It was back in 2016 that Los Angeles producer Elusive first signed to California's Dome Of Doom label with the French Toasted album, with this latest LP following last year's Bonsai Tree (and Ambient Void on Alpha Pup Records). Filled to the brim with detuned, jazz-tipped and electro-soul vibes, Horizons takes in collaborations from trumpeter Josh Koslow in the new age soul-jazz of "Intuition" alongside some percussive, krautrock fusions in "Vague Emotions" feat Josh Howard live on bass and saxophonist Ian Roller. Finding a place somewhere between the music of Flying Lotus, Clark, Hudson Mohawke and Dorian Concept, Elusive's beats, crackles, pops and computer music are as twitched-out and melodic as they are leftfield and experimental. Let's call it jazz.