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One to watch: Jane Paknia
Inspired by Alice Coltrane, Sophie and a certain Muppet, the New York musician lives out her dream on an addictive second EP
Paknia, 24, had been frustrated that she couldn’t connect her youth as a talented pianist (taught by her Iranian grandmother) and brass player with her boundary-pushing inspirations Sophie and Alice Coltrane. Millions of Years of Longing is choked with ideas, recalling the ur-hyperpop of British producer Max Tundra, Jockstrap’s seesawing between sweetness and chaos, and the most intense end of Brainfeeder’s catalogue. Single songs seem to encompass Paknia’s entire musical history: the warped vamping of Circular came out of obsessively practising Bach; the Elmo-inspired The Dream Is This cracks from self-possessed piano noodling to intense breakbeats.
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