New music – Nathan Fake announces Evaporator album (InFiné)

adapted from the press release by Ben Hogwood

After several years of silence, Nathan Fake makes a powerful return with Evaporator, his first album on InFiné. Written in six weeks during the summer of 2024, the record distills two decades of exploration into a lucid, tactile form of daytime electronica — radiant, physical, and full of air. Emerging from the nocturnal pulse of Blizzards and Crystal Vision, Fake turns toward light and openness. 

His analog synths and rhythmic architectures shimmer with space and energy, dissolving density into motion. Tracks like Bialystok and Slow Yamaha pulse with kinetic precision, while “Yucon” and “Aiwa” drift into dreamlike ambient clarity. 

Built entirely on his ancient Cubase setup and recorded largely in single takes, Evaporator captures Fake at his most instinctive and human, while collaborations with Clark and Dextro deepen the sense of dialogue between sound and emotion, between control and surrender. 

This marks not only a major comeback for one of the UK’s most singular electronic artists, but also the start of a new chapter: Fake will tour the album with a brand-new A/V live show created in collaboration with Berlin-based visual artist Infinite Vibes, expanding his luminous sound into a full sensory experience. The first few shows in Berlin, Paris, Milan and Roma have just been announced.

A luminous fusion of electronica, ambient undertones, and leftfield techno, Evaporator is Nathan Fake reconnecting with instinct, clarity, and daylight — and taking it back to the stage.

You can listen to Bialystock and The Ice House below:

Published post no.2,732 – Friday 28 November 2025

Switched On – Nathan Fake: Crystal Vision (Cambria Instruments)

by Ben Hogwood

What’s the story?

There is no sub plot to Crystal Vision, Nathan Fake’s sixth album.

The Norfolk-based producer describes his approach as “music for music’s sake – recorded without angles, agendas and themes”. This means a continuation of his energetic electronica, creating powerful minds-eye visions with its bold colours and busy rhythms.

What’s the music like?

Crystal Vision pulses with energy. The music here often feels like part of a bigger machine, especially in the cymbal-rich percussion, which on tracks like Boss Core feels like some sort of euphoric process, the repetitive motion of its beats leading to greater highs.

Vimana is a bracing and colourful track, using its synths to trace bright lights across the sky. Bibled grows inexorably over a thudding breakbeat, while the urgency of Hawk also whips up a storm, while uncannily describing its subject matter.

Wizard Apprentice gives an appropriately cool vocal to The Grass, while the closing Outsider is a busy and rewarding collaboration with Clark that takes a restless, probing single line and spins it out across an urgent beat and a wide sonic panorama, the music becoming ever more dense and thrilling as it progresses.

Does it all work?

Yes, it does – fulfilling Fake’s promise that the music is there for its own sake, creating positive energy and thoroughly rewarding experiences.

Is it recommended?

It is indeed, enthusiastically so – a strong addition to what is now a formidable discography.

Listen

Buy