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Nils Frahm: All Melody

The tunes on his new album are the kind of thing Satie might have come up with if he was idly tinkling at the piano while waiting for his Morrison's cauliflower cheese to microwave

issue 10 March 2018

Grade: A

Here we are in that twilit zone where post-techno and post-ambient meets modern classical, a terrain that has its fair share of tuneless charlatans and chancers. Frahm is not one of those.

There are of course the repetitive synthesiser arpeggios familiar to anyone who has had the misfortune to sit in some achingly hip Dalston café: slightly too many for my liking on ‘#2’, which Frahm may consider the centrepiece of this album.

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