Drew Lustman escapes his Falty DL alias with this dizzyingly ace album under his own name. 'Crystal Cowboy' is quick and loose but flush with all the funky tricks and crafty soul that has endeared him so much to heads the world over since 2007 and a sterling run of IDM-into-breaksploitation antics. He approaches the project with X amounta humour and guile, brilliantly indulging his Anglophilic tendencies with nuff hardcore/jungle roll-outs interspersed by instinctive nods to his home city's jazz, house and R&B heritage. It was apparently written on-the-fly, freed of any conceptual restrictions, manifesting some of his most direct and devilish masterstrokes with gems such as 'Watch A Man Die' (surely a nod to the 4Hero remix of Scarface?) or the creamy soul fizz of 'Angel Flash', and likewsie at refreshing new angles with the lush kaotic discord and dub house flex of 'Wolves', or the queered songcraft of 'Onyx', sporting the first ever sung vocal recording by Le1f.
