Bleep

Just in case you missed the initial blast of gqom bombast back during its 2020 release, Mute bring the debut of its new signee — South African multi-disciplinary artist Desire Marea — to your ears. Whether your auditory faculties ready or not is another question entirely. Desire is one of those paradigm-shifter albums, a delicate work cloaked in fury that takes South African electronic music as its jumping-off point into something far stranger by pairing chipper synth beats with a gorgeous operatic vocal delivery.