It seems to be a waiting game with Anna Meredith, two years on from when I was raving about her Nautilus, we have an album – in March of next year! Can’t totally blame her though, she has been doing the classical day job at the Proms with tracks such as Smatter Haul and schools commissions.
Still we have two tracks that have been released, and they are ace. The first is the lucious video for Honeyed Words, all microscopic landscapes and shapes and quietism. But released this week is R-Type, closer to her previous EP’s, a rush of frantic 8-bit game twiddles and manic build in headbanging rock (I’m reminded of Anamanaguchi). Hence being named after a video game, I guess?
If you like Holly Herndon, Jon Hopkins and the like, you’ll love both of these…I just wish the pace of new releases wasn’t as glacial as the crevices in the video!
https://soundcloud.com/moshimoshimusic/anna-meredith-r-type-1
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