Just got my copy of his new one, and I think it might actually be my favourite thing by him (subject to me going back and listening to all the other records). It's interesting from the 'darkness' point of view, in that I don't think it's dark at all. Not even in the non-try hard 'bleak' sense. It's weird and sprawling and psychedelic, but it's also a straight up bassline groover. Serious swing levels, just a bit rotten and decomposed, really going for the original Skull Disco 'dig up your ancestors and have a dance' thing. Reminds me a bit of the best Oni Ayhun tunes actually, not in terms of the actual sonics, but maybe the way they almost accidentally/incidentally interact with normal dance music tropes.
Lots of his oeuvre is quite bleak of course, but I think that's all there is to it is overly simplistic. His release on Hot Flush was a good previous example I think, Massacre anyway. Probably his most overtly upbeat tune that, always very recognisable when it starts slipping in during a live set. Again, it has a real groove to it, along with shrieks and whoops. Which sort of sums up why I like his music so much actually. His niceness (which I will also attest to) is completely irrelevant.