Sophia Loizou – Singulacra

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Having charmed many a keen-eared listener with her debut release Chrysalis on Astroynamics, Bristol-based sonic explorer Sophia Loizou returns with a more expansive work for Kathexis. While she may not be the first to be appropriating rave tropes into a new experimental context, she certainly does it in her own way. The emphasis here is on tension and space, where icy textures linger in mid-air and spectral sample tones wrap themselves around the mix, but there’s no denying the joy in spotting some familiar slices in the mist. The most obvious treat of these is on “Glimpses Of Death”, which does a very wonderful thing with an evergreen jungle classic, refiguring the original into a strung out slice of ambient beauty to melt even the moodiest raver’s heart. Elsewhere you may be treated to slow-marching orchestrations or fuzzy washes of harmonious tone and splayed shards of a break, but it’s in the somnambulant effect of the whole record that the true majesty of the music is revealed