For your hit-or-miss pleasure, we have this French producer, who’s made beats for Drake (“Haunted,” from the Views album being one) and a ton of others, out to make a name for himself as a song craftsman. Toward this he’s thrown together a who’s-who of similarly rising cronies to help him out and has been maybe a little too generous in the process, creating a resumé rather than a coherent collection, perhaps on purpose. Here’s what I mean: the guy is trying to get past the thousand-seat threshold, which would definitely require a lot of syrupy preteen-anthems, and I can dig all that, but why bother putting muffled gloom-boppers Badbadnotgood on the same track as Rihanna wannabe Shay Lia unless you’re trying to guarantee that your next borough bash is going to be so hip that even Iggy would feel like a loser? “Far From Home” tries to make its backward-masked synth-gloop something more important than the alien transmissions from Jodie Foster’s Contact movie, but, well, eh, it’s a beat, maybe write it off as an intro to “Haunted,” but no, even that song, “helped out” by Bjork-ish Iranian Sevdaliza’s half-asleep lollygagging, is just canned afterparty fare. More shiny objects please! B — Eric W. Saeger