7digital What we said: Having spent the last few years sandwiching mix-athons with BFFs Four Tet and Caribou in-between his neuroscience PhD, you wouldn’t have thought Sam Shepherd had time to squeeze in an album. Such a vast array of vocations, however, informs the wonderfully idiosyncratic quality of his debut. Subtler than the rapturous acid wiggle of last year’s EP Nuits Sonoires, Elaenia foregrounds Shepherd's life-long love of classical and jazz music, as flawless improvisations embellish ethereal brass-arrangements and bubbling boogie-rhythms. Without settling on a fixed direction, Shepherd’s seven glorious “suites” gently hark back to the abstract utopias of his early excursions, resulting in a dreamy blend of orchestral lullabies and gentle dancefloor preludes.
Track Number | Track Title | Track Length | Track Price/Buy Link |
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1 | Nespole | 5:08 | |
2 | Silhouettes (I, II & III) | 10:42 | |
3 | Elaenia | 7:14 | |
4 | Argenté | 4:34 | |
5 | Thin Air | 3:59 | |
6 | For Marmish | 5:46 | |
7 | Peroration Six | 5:14 |
- Duration:
- 42:37
- Genres:
- Electronic
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