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British electronic music producer SBTRKT is finally returning with The Rat Road, his first album in seven years. “This album has been my most sonically ambitious record to create, following my own musical path, which isn’t based on others’ perceptions of what SBTRKT should be,” he explains in a statement. “’The Rat Road’ is a play on the concept of ‘the rat race.’ It’s partly based on my own challenging experiences within the music industry and life generally, though I realized the idea is not isolated from a much wider feeling of exhaustion.” Every SBTRKT album is a star-studded affair, and although the full tracklist for this one hasn’t been announced yet, it will include collaborations with Toro Y Moi, Sampha, and more. [Peter Helman]