Actress' latest album is like a musical sketchbook filled with intimate, personal experiments with techno, house, and more.

Ghettoville is as deeply immersive a piece of music as any, a veritable world unto itself, full of dark alleys and hidden nooks, the kind of place you can get lost in and which reveals new details with every listen.

Album · 2014 · 16 Songs.

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Actress - Ghettoville If you really want to hear Ghettoville, you can't be doing much else while you listen to it. The only time I'm suitably unbothered by any other stimuli is the hour or so I toss and turn before actually falling asleep.

When the January 2014 release date and track list of Darren Cunningham's fourth Actress album was announced, the artist wrote some accompanying words that could be summarized as a resigned "whatever," or as an emoticon signifying a sigh, or as a rant ghost-written by Jaden Smith. Cunningham referred to the "conclusion of the Actress image" and, like a micro-blogger who just witnessed a miscue from a professional athlete, signed off with ".

The result is that the album is very scatterbrained, with no real logical progression or flow between the tracks. This makes Ghettoville a difficult but engaging listen, as you're constantly on your toes, wondering what will come next. The only real misstep comes right at the very end: 'Rule' is an unnecessary footwork excursion that's only there to show that Cunningham is still down with what's hot at the moment

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Werkdiscs/Ninja Tune). He's already called one album of minimal techno experiments RIP (2012). Electronic type Actress (Darren Cunningham) has threatened retirement once again after this fourth album, which, he has hinted, is "trying to represent a concealed pain".