Lord Of The Isles - Skylark

‘Skylark’ was undoubtedly one of the shimmering highlights on Lord of the Isles’ rather good 2016 album, In Waves, so it’s great to see it return to stores in re-mastered and remixed form. This time round, the superb original – a spacey and emotive affair that sees the Scottish artist wrap a kick-heavy drum machine beat in star-fall synthesizer motifs and elongated early morning chords – comes accompanied by some fresh remixes. His old pal Linkwood steals the show with an epic, ultra-deep version that sounds like ambient techno fused with broken beat, while Tourist Kid provides a similarly impressive experimental ambient take. Bonus cut ‘OmniMulti’, a house tempo exercise in melancholic Motor City futurism, is also rather good.