On Rat Film, Dan Deacon’s inspired soundtrack to the provocative essay-film of the same name, one of electronic music’s most exciting artists delivers his first full record devoted to modern composition. Concurrent with making his mark in popular music with his four ecstatic electronic-pop studio albums, he’s provided soundtracks for film and stage giants ranging from Francis Ford Coppola’s Twixt) to Justin Peck’s “The Times Are Racing” featured recently at the NYC Ballet, and scored projects for innovative video artists. Deacon’s impressive array of compositional commissions includes pieces with Kronos Quartet at Lincoln Center, Sigur Rós at the L.A. Philharmonic, and So Percussion at the Barbican Centre. Rat Film offers the first recorded document of this parallel career—and both as a self-contained album and a companion piece to an equally potent film, it astounds.