UK producer James Rutledge is Pedro and Pedro's new album is mind-blowing. Revered within the indie electro circles, it has been four years since anything has been release under the Pedro namesake, but the sounds on You Me & Everyone make it worth the wait. On this scattershot release, Rutledge has made an explosion of found sounds, at once airy and cluttered. The common strain through the album is playful jazz hip-hop pastiche, but like any electronic artist should, Rutledge eschews any typical beats, baselines and synths in favour of a kaleidoscope of snatched sounds that explode like starbursts across the album. Everything rattles in an out, sax bleats battle with video game bleeps, jazz snare riffs clatter across flute trills and each element tossed in with abandon ends up sparkling like diamonds. He cast allusions in the liner notes and in his biography to a childlike state and You, Me & Everyone encapsulates that joyful chaos. It's finger-painting the walls, tipping ten kilos of Lego from the balcony or making a glitter sandwich. Producers will be mesmerised by the sheer amount of work that must have gone into making the album sound so slapdash and fun, and while it's not typical danceable, indie electro hipsters will be singing its praises. You Me & Everyone is often the most primal demonstration of what electronic music was meant to be; the freedom for wanton, random assemblage. - Citysearch Brisbane