As exemplified in a January Song of the Day, Contains Multitudes, with loops, tabla and violin, the British producer’s fourth album is a wondrously inventive landscape of imaginative electronica, bells, birdsongs, bleeps and heartbeats. As Holden puts it: “I used to balance my clock-radio on a wardrobe to catch the faint pirate FM signals from the nearest city, dreaming of what raves would be like when I could finally escape and become a New Age traveller. So it’s like a dream of rave, a fantasy about a transformative music culture that would make the world better. I guess it’s also a dialogue with that teenage me.”
As well as that extraordinary nine-minute track, there’s much else to enjoy across all 12 tracks, including the retro-rave journey of Common Land, the old-school ambience and electronica of In The End You’ll Know, the high energy of Continuous Revolution, the bucolic feel and woodland birds and cows in Four Ways Down The Valley, all the way to closing rhythmic experience of You Can Never Go Back. Filled with highly original sounds, textures, variations and shapes, it’s a journey you’ll want to start again as soon as you reach the end, with an uplifting feeling that the possibilities for music are indeed endless. Out on Border Community.
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