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Given that he produced one of the most celebrated ambient albums of the 2010s – 2016's For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have) – Kansan producer Brian Leeds, aka Huerco S., has a complicated relationship with the ambient genre. “It’s like productivity music, capitalist music," he said after the unexpected success and longevity of his album left him feeling done with the ambient "scene" and considering jacking it all in to become a car mechanic. "It’s non-intrusive, it doesn’t get in your way, like you can still work your job. It kinda makes me cringe a bit.” 

All that (including the part about cars) probably explains why the follow-up Huerco S. album, 2022's, Plonk, was a lot harder to categorise. It melded beautiful ambient soundscape with snappy, off-kilter techno and clattering rhythms. Three years on, and the next Huerco S. LP is presumably in progress, and this show should be a highly enjoyable steer on where Leeds' restless creative mind is taking him now.