After last year’s Gold, another offbeat, truly oddball but original offering by Manchester-raised, London-based Gus Fairburn, his jittery side-of-mouth sax style and gnomic, mantra-style lyrics with guest such as Guinea vocalist Falle Nioke and polyrhythmic drummer Sarathy Korwar to fuse Afrobeat with clunky alt-folk-jazz. This isn’t music in which you’d seek out conventional structure, more momentum and feel, sometimes frenzied climax, at other times relaxing otherworldliness. Standouts include opener Silomandi (with Nioke), What Can It Take, To That Voice and Say, Greek Honey Stick (with revered jazz drummer Tom Skinner), Levels of Human and the beautifully atmospheric build of The Best Thing In The World. Still very much one of a kind, DePlume is a uniquely gentle, fluttery whirlwind of positivity and collaboration. Out on International Anthem.
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