Bristol, U.K.-based electronic musician/composer Roly Porter started his career as one half of pioneering dubstep duo Vex'd, but his subsequent solo work under his own name ventured away from club-based electronic music, constructing dense, harrowing walls of sound utilizing classical instruments as well as heavy, distorted bass tones. In 2011 he issued his solo debut, Aftertime, an unsettling album that blended strings and Ondes Martenot (played by noted British musician Cynthia Millar) with Porter's sporadic noise bursts and bristling distortion. Porter's second studio album, the celestially themed Life Cycle of a Massive Star, appeared on Subtext in 2013. Porter's third studio album, Third Law, appeared on Tri Angle in early 2015, and was even more gripping and overwhelming than his already epic previous works. ~ Paul Simpson