…Now teaming up with the pastoral synthesist Dorian Concept, Bibio has produced a collection that is flexible enough for at least three seasons; we’ve yet to hear how it might sound in winter, but suspect that its tones may be too warm for the whiter months.
Friends since 2009, Stephen Wilkinson and Oliver Johnson share a love for “aging technologies” and imperfect analogue equipment, which results in a sound that is occasionally brittle, held together by tape and twine. The album is suffused with a soft tenderness that borders on nostalgia, reflecting the cover, in which a child already seems to be looking back on a younger, smaller self. When does nostalgia first surface, and when does it set in for good? Without providing…

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