"Edinburgh based Northern Irish producer Gary Caruth has created some of the most considered, slow-burning electronic music of the last few years under the name Sad City. His career, which has so far taken in 3 EPs and 1 LP in the past 7 years, has been a similarly slow builder, but with blanket praise thus far for his bucolic, textured electronica, the virtue in his patience is obvious. A first EP, "Gestures", appeared in 2011, but it was 2 EPs in 2013 and 2014 for the London label Phonica that really began to bring his name to prominence. Caruth’s music strives to create a palpable sense of “place” – something you could say about a lot of atmosphere-focused electronic music. His commitment to the cause goes well beyond that of most producers, however. Field recordings of voices, birds, tides, cars, and countless other things have long been a central plank of his production technique, and have added a striking sense of texture and atmosphere to his records that couldn’t have been achieved artificially. 2016 brought Caruth's debut album, "Shapes In Formation" jointly released via R&S sub-label Meda Fury & Emotional Response. This album compiles the best aspects of the Sad City catalogue thus far, but there's something about it that goes beyond mere linear growth. It would seem that he has turned a corner and found his niche. This is deep, subtly deconstructed house music, with its feet in a classic tradition and its head lost in reverie."