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Sealed brand new double album housed in a unique silver foil.

Several regional dance music scenes feed into the work of Darren Cunningham, aka Actress. His singular, ever-evolving breed of experimental techno has precedents in Detroit, Chicago, and his native London, though none of these cities explain Cunningham. Rather, his music—which has grown conceptually weighty over his past few releases—imagines and perhaps even conjures another place, a new home for itself. In Kodwo Eshun’s *More Brilliant Than the Sun, *a collection of essays considering electronic music through an Afrofuturist lens, he writes “Everywhere, the ‘street’ is considered the ground and guarantee of all reality, a compulsory logic explaining all Black Music, conveniently mishearing antisocial surrealism as social realism.” The phrase “antisocial surrealism” is an excellent term for the broadly-drawn but inward-leaning world Actress creates.