Like his genre-dodging homeboys Burial and James Blake, England's Darren Cunningham, a.k.a. Actress, makes electronic dance music full of surface-noise nostalgia and bass-heavy, cybernetic soul. Where Burial focuses on vibe depth and Blake on dub-carved songcraft, Actress takes a more ADHD approach, jumping between ideas and emptying the pantry into his abstract LPs. The vocal shards that crowded his thrilling 2010 Splazsh are mostly gone here (as the title hints), replaced by insect-like static, clattering rhythms, tingling melodies, and reverberant space. "Jardin" conjures a lonely digital kora harp, "Serpent" a recital for cello, kick-drum, and Wii. It’s the sound of a DJ just getting started after everyone's gone home.

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“Youth Knows No Pain”

“Like on 'Youth Knows No Pain' — we are the ones that should demonstrate, because we can take it,” Likke Li said. “We can pierce ourselves, take Ecstasy, dance all night and still go to work at our McDonald's jobs.” Despite the hedonistic sentiment in the song, the Swedish singer also admitted in hindsight her youth had repercussions. “I remember when I was 18-19 and feeling that I know it all,” Li said. “I always feel that I know it all. But that song is about realizing you don’t, and reflecting, ‘Boy, if I only knew what would follow.’”