James Whipple returns from a long period of musical dormancy with his first full length LP for PAN since 2017. As M.E.S.H., he honed a singular and unpredictable sonic identity on his debut album Piteous Gate and helped define the sound of experimental club music in the 2010s. Re-emerging now as Hesaitix, the now-familiar motifs have become streamlined, the sound palette both more refined and more elaborate. Even at its most abstract, there is an uncanny presence permeating the record, a convincing emotional reality with its own narrative and spatial logic. Moving beyond the fragmented sound of his previous work, Noctian Airgap finds the artist embracing the hypnotic effects of rhythm.