On their fifth album, Rufus Du Sol sound overwhelmingly slick and familiar.
There was a moment at Burning Man in 2022 where it seemed like the entire festival was looking for Rufus Du Sol. The Sydney-born band have been based in the US for years now, and a rumour that the electronic trio was going to play a set on the playa had tens of thousands of “burners” in a tizzy..
The trio comprising Rufus are nice lads, as far as I can tell, and I don’t begrudge them their fame and fortune. Far more interesting than Rufus’ well-honed but formulaic output, however, is another lesser-known Melbourne act on their Rose Avenue record label called Adult Art Club, who are weirder, braver, and more varied. The “if it ain’t broke” approach seems to be working just fine for Rufus, but where there are no risks there are no thrills.
The structure of the record is fairly conventional. The first few tracks conjure black holes in deep space with oppressive, droning sounds lending a funereal quality. By the time, featuring Kim Petras and BC Kingdom, arrives in a sheeny spurt of mid-tempo, mid-energy hyperpop, it feels like opening the blinds after days of mourning.
The song kicks off a cartoony, playful run of tracks before the record veers into techno territory that’s darker but not aggressively so. Synths pop like artificial gunfire in a video game and, while percussion patterns are militant, the snares are muted, as though the drumstick tips have been coated in cotton wool.
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