‘Blistering stuff from the Southwest’, Bleed – from Exeter’s Soot Sprite – makes quite the mark as it transmutes mercurially from gossamery to muscular.
Ardent, the latest from Rennes’ Les Gordon, happily inhabits a hinterland between compatriots Air and their rather hardier Berlin counterparts Moderat.
‘Probably about the most textured, expressive one we have as yet heard from their forthcoming Forever Turned Around full-length’, Whitney Used To Be Lonely.