Bleep

Nils Frahm returns to his own LEITER label for the first of a promised pair of records in 2024 entitled Day. A return-to-form of sorts for the Hamburg composer, Day is composed entirely of solo piano music, going against the grain of his latest, more sonically robust material in favour of the stark austerity on which he built his name. However, tracks like album centrepiece ‘Butter Notes’ feel like a fusion between his old and new practice by adding room sounds, field recordings and luscious reverb to his striking keys and strings work to build a new sort of hybrid.