Having long left behind the slightest notion of being a hip-hop label (in the same way that most records on Anticon weren’t so hip-hop either), Mush releases the first full-length by long time office aficionado Matt Alsberg. So rather than wax on what the record is not, it is better to celebrate what it is. Opener “Ten Days Out” is a vintage listening techno selection, the scrappy little brother of anything off those Artificial Intelligence comps from the mid-’90s. Alsberg maintains gritty analog sound throughout, but shapes it into skinny guitar riffs on screamer “Cesspool City” with singer Anthony Anzalone or twitchy rhythmic skittering for emcee Cadence Weapon to brush over - á la Beans without the willfully obtuse lyrics. He probably pushers farther than need be with the spangled electro-folk of “The Nogoodnick,” but it’s all feisty and frolicking fun - presuming one finds old Warp Records releases fun rather than incorrigible. We’ll assume the former in readers of this mag. FOUR STARS - Jack Real