Manchester-based producer Cleric continues to grow through his own Clergy imprint with the labels 7th release, Rules Of Reality. The EP is an exercise in fully-focused. highly-distilled techno purity, leading first with a perpetuating drum groove offset against an icy stab on Unwritten Future. Next, Unspoken Rules channels the same minimalistic aesthetic into a more hypnotic mood, driving deeper down into a land of introspection with tension-laced percussion and hovering chords, whilst Unwanted Arrival exhausts the pressure with its mind-consuming acid pattern, followed by the more exposed, cinematic Beatless Mix |