an enthralling record of out-and-out bangers

Long ago, Sam Shepherd was a neuro-epigenetics PhD student by day and a DJ by night who, like his friends Four Tet and Caribou, knew how to wax a dancefloor. As  https://floatingpoints.co.uk/" rel="nofollow - Floating Points , he released fluid, shapeshifting electro-acoustic music that played to the feet but never at the expense of the head or the heart. After two exceptional studio albums came  https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/sep/15/i-imagine-hes-in-the-cosmos-hearing-music-floating-points-on-his-landmark-album-with-pharoah-sanders" rel="nofollow - Promises , his 2021 magnum opus with the London Symphony Orchestra, featuring the last major recordings of the late jazz saxophonist  https://uk.news.yahoo.com/pharoah-sanders-obituary-163542798.html" rel="nofollow - Pharoah Sanders . Since then, Shepherd has scored a  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF1copRgmEM" rel="nofollow - rapturously received ballet . An anime for Cowboy Bebop animator Shinichirō Watanabe is in the works.

https://floatingpoints.lnk.to/cascadeAP" rel="nofollow - Cascade , Shepherd’s first wholly Floating Points album since Crush (2019), is, enthrallingly, made up almost entirely of dancefloor-adjacent bangers, each unique in their tinkering with genre, tempo and chosen instrumentation. The elliptical, nearly nine-minute  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Dr-qwWEqk" rel="nofollow - Ocotillo  features the harp of Austrian-Ethiopian musician  https://www.musicexport.at/unlearning-perfect-miriam-adefris/" rel="nofollow - Miriam Adefris  and a clavichord that  https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-pmW7LumqQ/" rel="nofollow - belonged to Shepherd’s great-aunt . He loves a modular synth, and giddy, Doppler-like oscillations fill the eight-minute-plus runtime of Fast Forward, reaching a kind of retro-futurist rave epiphany on Afflecks Palace. The absolutely slapping  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWLpR6Fsc6Q" rel="nofollow - Birth4000 , meanwhile, pays cheeky tribute to Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder’s I Feel Love; it’s just a crying shame the album doesn’t find room for the 7½ minute  https://floatingpoints.bandcamp.com/track/birth4000-extended" rel="nofollow - extended remix .

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