Available on: Black Acre 2×10″

You can tell Fantastic Mr. Fox is going to get big – or at least as big as someone making weird electronic music called Fantastic Mr Fox can get until some Hollywood lawyer shoots him down.

His Evelyn EP ticks every box as far as winning friends in the ‘post-dubstep’ canon goes: vaguely R’n’Bish vocals cut up to say new things, fizzy, punchy synths that lie somewhere between James Blake and Joker, and a general sense of longing all viewed through a sepia-tinted lens. There’s a fair bit of this stuff around now, but luckily Fox’s work has enough sense of rhythm and enough of his own personality to ensure there’s room in the treehouse for him. Once ‘Sepia Song’ gets going it’s a right runaway train, and while ‘Over’ maybe seems a little too familiar, it’s more than made up by the soaring synths and computerised murmers of ‘Fool Me’.

Anna Russell