It's hard to know what to expect from Glimpse. Chris Spero is just as comfortable throwing up proggy bangers ('Caught On Train'), a spot of 
deepness ('Pushing Claude') or even Kompakt Pop-baiters ('Rocket Love').  That's, of course, a good thing and a bad thing. As someone who can 
travel between genres easily, Spero is an undoubted talented fellow.  And,  yet, because of this, you can't help but get the feeling that the  guy
doesn't spend enough time in each to get a real complete handle on  anything—before going off somewhere else to interlope some more.
 On his latest, he goes "abstract": 'Elephant Skins' would fit on any mind-bending minimal compilation of recent vintage. The track is dubby, 
but not dub techno. It has strange distended horn samples, but doesn't get too out there. The drums sound like tribal warriors consigned 
to a simple, boring pattern. For all its "weird" (read: safely strange) signifiers, though, the track goes down like a charm. Spero's obviously 
an expert in production matters and, more importantly, knows how to balance a track's elements against one another. What could have been an 
exercise in the dull paint-by-numbers Villalobos turns into something just as engrossing as some of his earlier work.
 
The Jay Haze remix may be even better. The groove instantly picks up  from the original and Haze turns the horns into staccato reminders of  what
they once were. Add in what sounds like a flamenco guitar (the  taste of which seems to be all the rage at the moment) and you've got a  satisfying
tune that betters an already solid original.
 
On the B, Glimpse continues apace with the deepness. 'Find a Way' mines Cassy's production box, layering two separate vocal samples to hypnotic 
effect. In some ways, it almost sounds like a parody, but it hardly matters. The end result of Spero's building groove is one that elides  any
sort of criticism—quite simply, I'm dancing too much to complain.
 
Man of the moment Johnny D turns up next for another version of 'Skins', which is something close to massive. A hard-driving piece of work, D 
takes a vocal slice from 'Find a Way' and layers it over top a slightly-tribal pattern that should serve to build any set towards a 
climax of epic proportions. Excellent.
 
4/5 Todd. L Burns