For Mind Abandon, Ital Tek incorporated more live instrumentation into the creation process, rather than primarily composing on a computer. The tracks are often based on guitars and even processed vocals, as well as live percussion and other instruments played by hand. The album still unmistakably sounds electronic, but it has a human touch. Ten years on from 2016’s Hollowed, Ital Tek has firmly established a cinematic style that has almost nothing to do with the dubstep, IDM, and juke hybrids he used to produce, even if his newer work is still informed by the more beat-forward direction of his earlier releases.
Opener “The Ice Is Thin” is a sparkling inferno with melancholy bass, and “A Hidden Path” almost sounds like a dark version of new…