The first album from the duo of Mike Wallis and Dave Tipper under the name Crunch offers up fifteen tracks of clippy, buzzy electronic experimentation, applying IDM techniques to more sedate soundscapes.  Chopped and drilled percussion, sharp pitch changes, squished breakbeats, and a host of audio filters are applied and combined over the course of the album, with the infrequent bursts of higher energy sliding right into place next to the more chill regularity.

Despite the often fragmentary style of the songs, the grab-bag of effects, and the absence of vocals, the album keeps its flow going without much stumbling, and the processed nature of the music combines well with the sly humor that flavors most of the pieces.  It does end up drifting into redundancy a few times, but the reconfigured tweaks help brush that off as a minor flaw.  All together, some nicely creative works built on strong technical knowledge.