Overview Created in an industrial workplace in Leyton, where Canary Wharf punctures the skyline, Circle Traps craft music made in the image of the modern city. The group consists of Jack Wyllie, Duncan Bellamy and Will Ward and was formed in East London in 2010 and quickly scored their first release on fellow East Londoner Subeena's Opit Records in early 2011. Their eponymous debut EP earned serious critical praise from the likes of The Wire, Quietus and Fact Magazine. Their attention to ambient textures is reminiscent of Actress and Daniel Lopatin, but their unique, multi-layered, crystalline vision is consistently offset by dance floor impulses that nod to Detroit through the likes of Model 500 and Derrick May. The Machine City EP is a lush amalgamation of textural, distorted melody and bassier dance floor leanings. 'A rare musical maturity weaving live instrumentation into an electronic sound world' Quietus 'Crystallized melodic sparkle and rhythms running from Actress-like flights to low-slung bomp' Boomkat 'What Circle Traps do may not be dance music, but their subtlety of touch and the adeptness of sound design is sure to win them fans from that quarter, as well as many others' Inverted Audio