A promising newcomer, yet virtually unknown in his native New Zealand, the Bathtub Sophist (aka Arron Stewart) is a man with his fingers in a number of particularly tasty musical pies. Functioning simultaneously as a purveyor of engaging electro-alternative music, an emerging composer of production music for film and television and a guitar-slamming, kilt-wearing punk rocker, his is a multifaceted talent that is sure to rise. With his ‘Bathtub Sophist’ project, Stewart presents us with an eclectic mix of organic and synthetic layers, painted in a shifting palette of musical styles. Whilst the use of processed guitars, minimalist vocal samples, atmospherics and computerised beats are all characteristic of his work – they are not absolutes. Stewart, it seems, has a wonderful knack for perverting popular and alternative approaches to music, managing to make the ‘alterative’ digestible and the ‘popular’ oddly uncomfortable. This is music that keeps you guessing, all of which makes for some interesting listening - even to the most jaded of ears.