Fresh from the release earlier this year of his compilation of lambent, analogous ambient and atmospheric music for the esteemed Late Night Tales compilation series, Floating Points’ first album in four years, Crush, twists whatever you think you know about him on its head again. A tempestuous blast of electronic experimentalism whose title alludes to the pressure-cooker of the current environment we find ourselves in. As a result, Shepherd has made some of his heaviest, most propulsive tracks yet, nodding to the UK bass scene he emerged from in the late 2000s, such as the dystopian low-end bounce of previously shared striking lead single ‘LesAlpx’ (Pitchfork’s ‘Best New Track’), but there are also some of his most expressive songs on Crush: his signature melancholia is there in the album’s sublime mellower moments or in the Buchla synthesizer, whose eerie modulation haunts the album.

TRACKLIST :

A1. Falaise

A2. Last Bloom

A3. Anasickmodular

A4. Requiem for CS70 and Strings

A5. Karakul

A6. LesAlpx

B1. Bias

B2. Environments

B3. Birth

B4. Sea-Watch

B5. Apoptose, Pt. 1

B6. Apoptose, Pt. 2