Desolate Figures is the excellent second album from John Heckle which builds on the strong debut LP the Liverpudlian released on Mathematics some two years ago. Indeed it's possible to view Heckle's affiliation with Mathematics as a springboard to wider acclaim - Heckle's debut EP earned him an honours at last year's Qwartz Awards and he's subsequently struck out with weighty slabs of hardware driven techno for Creme Organization, Signals, Apartment and Tabernacle Records. The latter label have become something of a second home for Heckle so it's no surprise to see Desolate Figures issued through Tabernacle and the nine tracks come across as a very intense collection that demonstrate Heckle's signature sound is becoming ever more impressive!