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The Bristol-born multi-instrumentalist’s bass vocals, oblique lyrics and taste for the atonal make for unsettling, off-kilter lounge music

Taking cues from Captain Beefheart and Laurie Anderson, the 24-year-old Bristolian, real name Jack Ogborne, creates noir ballads characterised by their dissonance, his guttural baritone underscoring experimental orchestration and fragmented noise. His 2022 debut EP, Mercy’s Cut, was recorded in the basement of a pub said to be a former hangman’s quarters, and he camped out in a church to make new album Bats Feet for a Widow. Having spent his childhood drumming in a church band, the singer-songwriter channelled lingering feelings of religious unease while absorbing the building’s acoustic textures, from the echoes bouncing off its high ceiling to the clatter of a falling crucifix in I’ll Be Mountains.

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