I’ve seen this come up on a few peoples’ best-of lists for the year so thought she might be worthy of her own thread. I have become obsessed with Space 1.8 since discovering it through the playlist for Le Guess Who festival (which she later dropped out of)
It was given a very positive review on P4K when reviewed a couple of months ago:
She was also interviewed in the Guardian last week:
This is particularly heartbreaking - would love to hear an album like Space 4
“It was a very exciting time, full of youthful, optimistic energy that ultimately produced an entire album of work that sounded like Space 4,” Sinephro says. “But in April 2018, I lost the hard drive with the compositions on it. I was distraught.”
Anyone else off to the gig at EartH on Friday? Idk if it’s sold out but I have a spare ticket if anyone needs
Yeah it’s a fantastic album – apparently Warp only pressed something like 250 copies on vinyl initially so now one’ll set you back £100+ but it’s being repressed for January I think.
Very tempted by the Earth gig on Friday but I might be double booked… I’ll check and may be in touch about that ticket…
My number one LP of 2021 and was lucky to get a copy of the first pressing at my local record store when it came out last year. A lot of these type of jazz, ambient, electronic records seem to come out on a limited number of pressings and then sell out straightaway. It’s on Warp so fairly predictable it would sell well so why not press more copies originally?
I’d forgotten that I’d ordered this for my Dad for Christmas, so was pleasantly surprised today by him phoning me up just to tell me how much he was enjoying the record.
Don’t think any of my myriad attempts to inflict my music on him have ever gone down quite so well before. Although until this point I had exclusively sent him Papa Roach albums, to be fair.
I liked Space 1.8 but sometimes it felt a little too “elevator music” for me in some parts. This one feels to me on another level.
Really reminds me of Laurel Halo’s Atlas in that although the building blocks are different, it manages to sound “new” each time and it drifts into slightly nebulous stuff that you can’t quite grasp and then locks into something which feels ridiculously satisfying.
Will be diving back into this one for years I reckon.
