This has been on my 'highly anticipated' list all year, and now that it's fully arrive, I have it on repeat. Full stop. Leading up to the release, I was obsessed with 'Birth4000'. And I still am. And in 2022 I listened to 'Vocoder' over and over and over again.
This is not your typical Floating Points. It's less jazz, more club. As another reviewer noted, it "goes pretty fucking hard." But I'm welcoming this deviation from the norm, and I happily embrace it alongside 'Crush' and 'Elaenia'.
I deducted half a star because a) so many of the bangers on this were released in 2022 and 2023; b) idk that the 'club mix' added much to Vocoder; and c)… More
Incredible demonstration of control and intelligence on the dance floor. The first half of the album goes so hard that its later tracks, more in the style of Aphex Twin, only reach 'very good' levels. Absolutely committed to this.
Turns out this new clubbing wave Sam is on goes pretty fucking hard. He is putting his own spin on things, per usual, it’s pretty incredible that he went from experimental jazz to this. A man who is becoming as definitive for the electronic scene as four tet was/is.
Sam Shepherd lets rip on Cascade. If on Crush he was wringing humanity out of machines and documenting their pain, here he drives them like sledding dogs, too rapid to show any exhaustion, letting the inner sear propel blistering forward motion. Every inch of this record is built to last, hardy, functional, powerful music full of surprises and with an ear to floors full of shuffling feet. Pacing is not as good as other FP records, but this is album as collection rather than journey.
Si te gusta la electronica escuchate la segunda mitad del disco, si no te gusta pero te pones como Orzowei cuando vas de bailoteo, escuchate la primera mitad. Pasable, facilon, Aphex Twin wannabe, meh...