Floating Points / Crush
Album: Crush   Collection:General
Artist:Floating Points   Added:Nov 2019
Label:Ninja Tune  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2019-12-04 Pull Date: 2020-02-05 Charts: Electronic, Classical/Experimental
Week Ending: Feb 2 Jan 26 Jan 19 Jan 12 Jan 5 Dec 29 Dec 22 Dec 15
Airplays: 3 3 2 1 1 1 1 2

Recent Airplay
1. May 18, 2024: Music Casserole
Falaise
4. Jan 21, 2022: The Offbeat Generation
Falaise
2. Mar 28, 2024: I Like to Dance: Shake Off Your Pants
Lesalpx
5. Jan 30, 2020: I Like to Dance: Shake Off Your Pants
Lesalpx
3. Apr 19, 2022: I Like to Dance: Shake Off Your Pants
Lesalpx
6. Jan 30, 2020: Run-Away-Radio
Lesalpx

Album Review
HYPRK
Reviewed 2019-11-18
Heady, avant-garde beats that perfectly bridge electronica and modern classical. The second studio album from British musician Sam Shepherd, a classically trained pianist from Chetham's School of Music who also holds a casual PhD in neuroscience and epigenetics from University College London. He recently returned from a tour with the xx, where he performed exclusively improvisational sets. The twelve tracks on this album are all intricately arranged and sonically dense while amazingly made with only a Buchla synthesizer and a Korg drum machine. For fans of Clark, GAS, Tim Hecker, Biosphere, Jon Hopkins, and Bonobo. FCC clean. All tracks instrumental. Try 1, 6, 9, 7, or 10

(*1.) (3:54) Smooth suspenseful strings projected onto a flickering electronic beat. Beautiful (2.) (5:53) Shy electronic blips over a chill drum n bass beat (3.) (3:12) Gyrating garage beat with buzzy distorted horns (4.) (2:23) Somber orchestral requiem with added electronic elements (5.) (1:54) Sparse and arrhythmic. Staticy with resonating tones. Reminds me of a lot of the stuff coming out of CCRMA (*6.) (4:41) Gyrating house beat. Slamming bass with skittery textures and epic swells in intensity (*7.) (5:08) Slow meandering intro builds into a tough rough drum n bass beat (8.) (4:45) Loose experimental drum and bass with floaty samples and electronic flashes (*9.) (3:00) Slow, freeform synthesizer. Minimal but beautiful and moving (*10.) (4:04) Gently drifting bottom-of-the-sea-core. Sparse and cinematic (11.) (2:35) Squirmy beat with synth plodding (12.) (2:27) Experimental, frantic, abrasive

Track Listing
1. Falaise   7. Bias
2. Last Bloom   8. Environments
3. Anasickmodular   9. Birth
4. Requiem For Cs70 And Strings   10. Sea-Watch
5. Karakul   11. Apoptose, Pt. I
6. Lesalpx   12. Apoptose, Pt. Ii