Soaring, delicately innovative, beautiful piano-based soft-sheen pop and electronica by the London artist in her debut under her own name, with some flavours of 70s Karen Carpenter and a dash of early Kate Bush, and themed around types of communication. These include missed and intercepted signals, chance meetings, synchronicities, channels through which we try to express our true feelings, happiness from free-flowing, but also outside interference that can get in the way. Made largely in her own studio, the title is inspired by how its location is looked over by two radio transmitter towers. Her technique is impressive, layering her voice with complex, richly harmonious, angelic backing vocals, she is inspired by echoes and snapshots of half-remembered pop songs, piano ballads, chopped up TV theme tunes, ambient synthesised sounds and electronic music; tuning in between channels without fully belonging to any one of them, with the comfort, familiarity and strangeness that can come with hearing voices on the radio. A release filled with subtleties that appear more on more on each listen, standouts include Sky At Night, Good Intention, I’m Not Crying, D 4 N (featuring Sampha), Any Day Now, the liltig piano and Bush-like Sarah, Make At Start, and the closer track, Silver Lining. A work of transcendent complexity, maturity and beauty. Out on Bella Union.
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