“Go back long enough and you’ll remember a day-glo William Hill advert soundtracked by the kind of bright, brash electro that kept the neon lights on at Hypem. The track – a flange-heavy, remix-baiting, La Roux-invitation-in-waiting was ‘Kid Velo’ by none other than Rival Consoles. Lifted from his 2011 album of the same name, at the time, Ryan Lee West was channeling his inner-Daft Punk with the sa”
“The evolution of Rival Consoles, the solo electronic project of producer Ryan West, has been a steep one. After a pair of albums that played around with acid house elements, he began shifting gears into more expansive and lusher compositions. The dancefloor throb and wobble was still there, but laid into a cottony bed of enveloping synth drones and melodies that felt suspended in midair. For his ”
“Rival Consoles further perfects his electronic craft on Persona”
