Floating Points - Crush LP Review
This is my first music review and I'm about to write something that directly contradicts itself, and it may send many of you running for the hills and avoiding any review marked with my name in the future. The new Floating Points album is everything you would expect from Sam Shepherd's alias, and at the same time, everything you wouldn't. Yes it is true that Floating Points has become a name synonymous with the unexpected, up there with the Four Tets and Burials, with whom something different is always expected, but is always delivered in a new uncanny way. But that's not exactly what I'm talking about with 'Crush', Floating Points first album in over 4 years. There's something else to it. Of course his trade mark style is there, the snappy percussive elements, the oscillating basslines that almost sound alive, the serene synthesizer sounds. I agree it is difficult to pin down a style for Floating Points, but his trade mark sounds are evident on...