Monday, March 7, 2016

#2064 Anna Meredith - Varmints

How rare to hear something truly new - in electronic music in 2016, doubly so.

A record that trips across modern classical, electronic, experimental, pop, etc - its at its best when it combines those first two, that majestic force of horns with that deep throb like only a hand-carved fuckyou bass tone can achieve: see worldcrushing opener Nautilus, also The Vapours.

An exercise in repetition, this digs a trench and puts you down in it and fire mortars over top, sings angel strings down through your shoestrings.

Inventive, beautiful, occasionally staggering, music with plenty of folds and concavities for the curious listener to get lost in 4/5

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