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Fred Again Pours Out Another Batch of Gloriously Sad Bangers With ‘Ten Days’: Album Review
Fred Again returns to the melancholy bangers of his galvanizing 'Actual Life' trilogy with 'Ten,' which features Emmylou Harris and Anderson .Paak.
Built around voice notes from himself and friends, internet posts and samples of other artists’ work, Fred’s musicality, gently pulsating beats and melancholic songwriting — he’s cowritten hits for Ed Sheeran, Rita Ora and others, and was mentored by his childhood neighbor, Brian Eno — made many of these digitally based songs as vividly human as any singer-songwriter’s. It’s so of a piece with those albums that in places it feels repetitive at times, but other tracks find him refining that multifaceted template into mesmerizing new shapes — and with an unexpected set of new collaborators (nearly every song has at least one featured artist). Best of all is the closing track, “Backseat,” a collaboration with Japanese House (British singer Amber Bain) featuring music by the late American DJ Scott Hardkiss with a wild caterwauling vocal melody, at least some of which seems to be played backwards.
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