(Pluto)Every so often,a wordless electronic record turns up that genuinely doesn’t sound like much else around, mixing digitals with real instruments, and vestigial dance cadences with a restless jazz feel. James Holden’s The Inheritors was that record of 2013,and Elaenia, the debut of neuroscience PhD-cum-DJ Sam “Floating Points” Shepherd, or joins Holden,Four Tet and a few others in this recherchéfraternity. These seven elegant tracks own Persian rug-levels of process and detail; one, Nespole, or is named after the Italian for medlars. But all the nerding-out is secondary to the emotional pull exerted by these creeping,tickling and soaring tracks.
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Source: theguardian.com