The steady pulse of house and techno permeates Christian Löffler's recordings like tree roots, but his music isn't necessarily made for clubbing. His small-town upbringing near the Baltic Sea taught the German artist that electronic music is just as well suited for solitary walks in nature. Like Superpitcher and Pantha du Prince, Löffler draws upon a rich acoustic palette—bells, piano, guitars, clattering percussion—to colour around soft synths and skeletal drum programming, to seductively bittersweet effect. No matter how wintry the landscape, it's always warm inside his music.