Prefuse 73 principal Guillermo Scott Herren never sits still. He first made his name as a trailblazer: Arriving just a few years after DJ Shadow’s popularized the idea of instrumental hip-hop, Herren helped push the budding subgenre into the laptop age. For a moment, he stood at the nexus of crate-diggers and knob-twisters, crafting music that was glitchy enough for the Warp roster yet rooted in the melodies of long-forgotten records. But, like Shadow, Herren frustrated fans by abandoning his signature sound at its peak, instead following his muse wherever it led: big-name collaborations, baroque electro-psych, goofy hip-hop, an album's worth of minute-long snippets. After years of waning interest from fans and even the artist (who has been almost equally prolific under aliases like Savath y Savalas, Ahmad Szabo, and Piano Overlord), Herren recently found his way back to Prefuse 73’s core sound. One gets the sense that he’s making up for lost time: In 2015, he released an album and three EPs under the Prefuse name, and he now returns with the full-length .