Silken ambience is the name of the game on this set from Icelandic composer Olafur Arnalds and dream-pop singer Talos, aka Eoin French, who tragically died in August last year, aged 36. Arnalds completed the album after his death.
Talos’ high, otherworldly voice is the dominant signature, from the opening title track with its heavy swell of strings at the high points, through to the spare piano and voice passages of “Bedrock”, a slow, melancholy piano ballad bathed in shimmering reverb and a chorus of voices. Talos’ delicate lone voice over Arnalds’ spare piano lines draws you in deeply, immediately and strikingly beautiful in its effects, but sometimes the reverb on the voice, the limpid instrumental settings, the piano polished to a sheen,…

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