Trip Hop Godmother Skye Edwards certainly doesn’t disappoint
with her new album. The more organic instruments that are synonymous with
Skye’s sound are laid to one side this time around, and have given way to more
electronic means.
Back To Now may
not be not be a revolutionary record but it is backed with great electronic
beats, glorious samples, silky choruses and of course that beautiful syrupy
voice that became Skye’s trademark when she broke onto the scene with
Morcheeba.
Back To Now shimmers
with euro-pop tinged trip hop throughout its forty three minute duration, with
the major stand out tracks being: the faux-orchestral luminance Nowhere, the dance floor bump and grind
of Little Bit Lost, the thumping
bombast of Every Little Lie and the
sexy synth bass and 8 bit modulations of Highlife
peppered over an already great group of songs.
By the time Dissolve comes
around, its melancholic beat-less electronica hits you in the gut. This is the
album’s main event - the chance for Skye to really show you all the levels her
genius voice can take you to. After a couple of verses the beats finally arrive
lulling you into a trance before leading out in a rasp of dirty synth.
Just when you thought it was all over, Bright Light serves just as a means to not end this almost perfect
album on a down note. Its placement on the record only makes it sound like a
sub-par Morcheeba B-side. However that matters very little when everything else
about Back To Now is so perfect.
Back To Now by
Skye is out on 29th October via PIAS
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