STACK #141 Jul 2016

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ABOVE & BEYOND I n another stunning achievement befitting the Grammy Award-winning group, English progressive trance trio Above & Beyond have reimagined the best of their oeuvre into the most sweeping, cinematic collection of orchestra-wrapped pieces you’re likely to find this side of a Zimmer soundtrack. Acoustic II includes rich arrangements from the celebrated We Are All We Need (2015), and is out now via Central Station/Universal.

THE AVALANCHES R emember all that time you spent listening to the microscopic details studded through Since I Left You ? This month you get to do it all again, with a brand new collection of frankly rudely beautiful songs from everyone's favourite recluses, The Avalanches. Wildflower contains all of

the contemplative space, sh-t hot beats and innovative sampling we adored 16 years ago. There are even some sonic particles you might recognise from the previous album, in a really cute throwback for the die-hards.

Photo credit: Dean Hammer

Wildflower is out July 8 via EMI.

E mma Louise doesn’t let go lightly. The past is a departure lounge echoing eternal in All We Ask Is Time . Talk Baby Talk and West End Kids find old flames still burning from NewYork to her hometown of Brisbane, with an intensity of emotion only amplified by her close-mic'd whisper. Dido/ Ladyhawke/ Goldfrapp producer Pascal Gabriel brings a muted, creamy texture and copious alluring detail to songs of anxious surrender ( Underflow ) and blissful transcendence ( Illuminate ). But it's the singer's multi-layered voice that delivers the killer melodic punches, and the kind of muted soul that makes Shut the Door the smouldering highlight here. (Liberation) Michael Dwyer EMMA LOUISE SUPERCRY

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BADBADNOTGOOD

I nstrumental, electronic post-jazz outfit Badbadnotgood have experimented with vocalists before – they released an entire album’s worth of tracks with Wu- Tang Clan’s Ghostface Killah last year, the critically acclaimed Sour Soul – but this time they’re spreading their curious, Canadian tentacles out further than ever before. Their brand new record IV features some gobsmacking singers and rappers: Mick Jenkins, Samuel Herring from Future Islands, beloved producer Kaytranada, and fellowToronto native Charlotte Day Wilson. Always curious and exploratory, these tracks are absolute caramel in a bun – out via Inertia, you can get IV on July 8.

STACK Picks Shut The Door, Underflow, Illuminate

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