Sun Electric's third studio-born long-player for Apollo is a return to beat-oriented territory after the more chilled tones of their previous live album. Although a few tracks echo the trancier rhythms of
Kitchen and Aaah..., much of
Present is on a breakbeat, IDM tip. But while for some this amounts to a criticism of
Sun Electric's jungle trendiness, in fact few of the rhythms on the album are reducible to drum'n'bass, with more subtle beat layering and rhythmic eruptions aligning the group with ambient/experimental electro/techno artists such as
the Black Dog or
Tournesol. ~ Sean Cooper