Clark

A prolific producer and composer who sidesteps easy classification, Clark's body of work teeters between exuberance and foreboding undercurrents. Over the course of his career, his juxtapositions of gritty synths, breakbeats, noise, and nods to house and techno took on many forms. On 2001's Clarence Park, he imbued them with frosty nostalgia; on 2006's Body Riddle, he fortified them with orchestral and jazz flourishes. He alternated the abrasive and reflective sides of his music on 2008's hard-hitting Turning Dragon and 2012's pastoral Iradelphic; on 2021's Playground in a Lak...