Bleep

Nils Frahm’s LEITER label has enjoyed a flurry of releases since its inception in late 2020, namely from archival scavenges and reissues of his older material, but with Music For Animals the composer finds himself at a meditative peak with his first new solo work since 2019. Inspired by nature’s unstructured eternities, Music For Animals patiently unfolds, depicting expanses as vast the tracks are long. The enveloping ‘Briefly’ blurs the pitter patter of minimal techno skipping stones with reedy murmurations, lurching organs, and watery kalimba plucks bobbing in and out of frame.