An unusual vocal 22nd LP by the acclaimed producer marries his ambient, evocative, sonic landscapes and his full, rounded rather beautiful delivery - slow, chant-like but filled with profundity, emotion and dark humour about our ultimate, apocalyptic fate. “Who gives a thought about the nematodes / There isn't time these days / For microscopic worms / Or for unstudied germs / Of no commercial worth,” he chants, on opener Who Gives A Thought. There Were Bells is also another melancholy standout in a track that points, as does much of the album, towards the slow remorseless decline of mankind and climate change collapse. “All the roads through time weave the world's long rhyme / And it all unravels in a sea of pearls and swine.” Garden of Stars is another highlight, one that captures a sonic exploding cosmos and that “these billion years will end”. We Let It In has a atmospheric, breathy sense of space and echo, capturing the revolution of our planet around the sun, and Icarus or Blériot is another sensual, delicate, ethereal track, capturing how self-destruction on a precipice and that “All this world / All this time / Here above the galaxy / Who are we?… Who were we?” A slow, beautiful apocalypse. Out on Opal Music / Universal.
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