Bleep

Four Tet’s favourite Australian assemblage are back at it with NEW BODIES. After a year of touring Australia, supporting Tortoise and showing their work alongside David Hockney at the National Gallery of Victoria, Tangents launch their new album on Temporary Residence, their fourth since the group’s formation in 2010. The quintet expertly combine an array of genres to achieve a profound effect; post-rock melds with free improvisation, held in a hazy, dream-like state by the facile use electronic production. ‘Immersion’ begins softly, emotive piano and strings leave space for the arrival of a less conventional drum pattern. The track’s acclivity is beautiful, and by the time it reaches its point you’re left unclear about how you never predicted the impact of the song’s instrumentation at its inception.