It's this album of two parts, the first half of it reflects my kind of renewed excitement about electronic music, and it's really I guess my own strange hybridization of pop song structure with EDM aesthetics.

And then the second half of the record is more what I call typical Duncan Sheik self-indulgent art songs and it's more organic, sparse, internal and darker.

Legerdemain is a 2015 studio album by American singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik.

[6] Editors at AllMusic rated this album 4 out of 5 stars, with critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine writing that while this album "may carry some of the sighing melodicism and soft, hazy surfaces that turned [Sheik] into a AAA smash... [Ledgerdemain] is a... like a hybrid between his Broadway work... and his 2011 salute to the '80s" with the "gravity of a stage production" and new wave music sounds.

[8] In Paste, Laura Stanley rated this work a 6.6 out of 10, stating that while "the diverseness of the record is praiseworthy, its immensity is obvious and ultimately fumbles the delivery rather than using sleight of hand as the album title would suggest".