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 After the five year-hiatus following 2018's Collapse EP, Richard D. James returned with augmented reality—the technology that's primed to replace the mobile phone as our primary interface for digital content—to tease a new EP. Whether it's the gear he builds himself or his still mind-blowing comeback album Syro, it's typical of James to re-emerge in the present bearing gifts from the future. On Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / In A Room7 F760, he opts for more of a retrospective turn, unifying his '90s and '10s work under kinetic, obsessively processed drum patterns and melancholy chord sequences. Instead of attempting to reinvent the wheel, he refines and extends his legacy, preserving the familiar while hearkening back to the uncanny moods that shroud his best ambient-leaning works. - Resident Advisor