BUILDING SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL FOR ME

Album opener 'Maybe If I' riffs on Eastman staple Stay On It. Its arrestingly pretty central melody is reshaped into a living, undulating canvas on which James' IDM-inspired beat production flickers and swirls. A repeated vocal line pulls Eastman's towering work of modern minimalism towards reclassification as a 'song'. Next follows 'The Perception of Me (Crazy N-)', channelling Eastman's righteous anger and knowing reclamation of the brutally charged N-word into a quasi-ambient exploration of Eastman piano samples set to skittering beats. Elsewhere, opening side B, 'Enfield, Always' acts as a creative response to our past master. Album opener 'Maybe If I' riffs on Eastman staple Stay On It. Its arrestingly pretty central melody is reshaped into a living, undulating canvas on which James' IDM-inspired beat production flickers and swirls. A repeated vocal line pulls Eastman's towering work of modern minimalism towards reclassification as a 'song'. Next follows 'The Perception of Me (Crazy N-)', channelling Eastman's righteous anger and knowing reclamation of the brutally charged N-word into a quasi-ambient exploration of Eastman piano samples set to skittering beats. Elsewhere, opening side B, 'Enfield, Always' acts as a creative response to our past master.