Elaenia

While I really love this LP from Floating Points, I have to (again) complain about the package it arrived in... Rather than ship this in an LP box (which protects the LP from almost all damage), this was shipped in a large box. This allowed the cover of the LP to become dented at all four corners. I've complained about this before, but to (obviously) no avail.

Sam Shepherd's Floating Points debut 'Eleania' is 5 years in the making. Opener "Nespole" uses the sounds of a failing Skype connection to build up to an ominous synth rhythm. 10-minute "Silhouettes (I, II, III)" takes 3 lavish left turns through a UK jazz club.The title track has a lunar ambiance that recalls Radiohead's "Treefingers". "Argente" and "Thin Air" are dissonant reflections of each other, adding up to the glitchy centerpiece of the record. "For Marmish" is music for a midnight drive around the streets of London. "Peroration Six" picks up where "Silhouettes" left off, ending the album with a powerful chaotic swash.

This does truly float. Well worth the gable of purchase and I throughly enjoyed every cut. Nice to see and hear organized electrons on parade. Cactus Ken

These artists are incredible!!

Unbelievably good

Mesmerizing. Has some of the triphop acoustic drumming you find with Bonobo's Jack Baker, some open ambient passages, and some groove/trance compositions. I came to Amazon to see if anyone had reviewed this yet because I go through so much music I never think to review music at all, but...this is special. Somebody else other than me has to be living inside this like a dream, right? When I saw the one reviewer call it a modern-day Kind of Blue, I laughed at the fact that as absurd as any comparison to Kind of Blue might sound at first, I think s/he might be right.

My favorite album since Holden's "Inheritors." Majestic electronic jazz compositions that leave me feeling like a deer in headlights. Find somewhere to listen to the full tracks online and then see if you don't find yourself sucked into the immaculately crafted world that Mr. Shepherd has constructed here.