RustieBest Rustie Albums Ranked

Glass Swords

pitchfork

8.0

“On his debut, this young Glasgow post-dubstep producer seems to understand that the surest route to dance music immortality is to reach both the dabblers and the hardcore by marrying innovation with hooks.”

EVENIFUDONTBELIEVE

pitchfork

7.3

“The Glasgow producer Rustie surprise-released EVENIFUDONTBELIEVE, his third full-length, last week. It is a rawer, scrappier record than either of his prior LPs, and the way he flips the bird at conventional notions of fidelity is almost punk.”

Green Language

pitchfork

7.2

“Three years after the genre-shattering, scene-defining debut Glass Swords, the inimitable Glaswegian producer Rustie returns with his second, diverse full-length. Danny Brown, Redinho, and others guest.”

EVENIFUDONTBELIEVE

rollingstone

7.0

“Few dance artists have found the sweet spot between EDM's good-time blare and underground dance's cooler sonic pathways quite the way Rustie has. The Glasgow DJ-producer born Russell Whyte has spent close to a decade turning heads, from his wiggy deconstruction of Zomby's "Spliff Dub" in 2009 to spinning a BBC Essential Mix that introduced the world to Baauer's "Harlem Shake" a year before its 201”

EVENIFUDONTBELIEVE

thelineofbestfit

6.0

“Rustie catches us off guard with EVENIFUDONTBELIEVE”

Green Language

rollingstone

6.0

“The second album from Scottish EDM expressionist Rustie explodes outward from the palette that made him a critical darling: the cheap sound of Eighties synthesizers, the hyperkinetic feel of Nineties IDM and the rhythms of contemporary bass music. Instead, Green Language packs in Godzilla-size bass drops, a Danny Brown cameo, post-trap weirdness and a whole lot of shoegaze-y pink noise. Sometimes ”