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Floating Points: Cascade review – an enthralling record of out-and-out bangers
The eclectic British producer returns with a more dance-focused album laden with giddy modular synths
Cascade, Shepherd’s first wholly Floating Points album since Crush(2019), is, enthrallingly, made up almost entirely of dancefloor-adjacent bangers, each unique in their tinkering with genre, tempo and chosen instrumentation. He loves a modular synth, and giddy, Doppler-like oscillations fill the eight-minute-plus runtime of Fast Forward, reaching a kind of retro-futurist rave epiphany on Afflecks Palace. The absolutely slapping Birth4000, meanwhile, pays cheeky tribute to Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder’s I Feel Love; it’s just a crying shame the album doesn’t find room for the 7½ minute extended remix.
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