The first group signed to London's Erased Tapes—a label that has steadily been making avant-garde music cool again—Rival Consoles taps into the mysterious energy and hidden warmth of synthesisers and drum machines. Early releases, featuring electro-house filtered through a prism of intelligent dance music, were indebted to Squarepusher's unusual rhythmic leanings. But beginning with 2014's Sonne, Ryan Lee West has stripped back his sound and slowed it down to a thoughtful pulse that combines post-club textures with lullaby atmospherics.