“Incandescent” is a half hour of ambience that blends comforting tones with crisper digital elements in a way that’s like cold water and hot water being poured together and wafting in fluid dynamic patterns around one another until equilibrium is eventually reached.

The title track has a watery ambience that does feel just a touch cliché but which is still nothing short of pretty, and which slightly misrepresents the EP as a whole, as it lacks the sinister edge and extremely minimal techno elements that the other three tracks bring.

Second track “Codon” has more urgency, a relentless repeating synth note underpinning an electronic atmosphere that has very strong elements of Tangerine Dream, and definitely in a good way.

Third track “Amino” plays almost like a hybrid of the first two, with the same drumless analogue synth rhythms but washed with rich found sounds.

Closing track “Exo” has the same ingredients but with an additional tension and lo-fi, square-wave edge that could soundtrack the sinister approach of zombies. There’s a whiff of John Carpenter about it. If the first two tracks have lulled you into sleep, this is the track that will score your anxiety dream.

This is an impressive pack of tracks from Mancunian Daniel Ruane, and on the strength of this EP, it’s definitely keeping an eye out for more of his work.