Bleep

Max Cooper arrives with his debut album, ‘Human’ on the FIELDS imprint, a suite of intimate cuts taking their cue from jazz and techno and featuring the vocals of long term collaborator Kathrin deBoer. ‘Adrift’ is a startlingly beautiful combination of plaintive piano, a shifting glitch pulse, and deBoer’s stunning vocal delivery, which is crooning and luxurious without being self-indulgent. ‘Empyrean’, though purely instrumental, is equally beguiling, with Cooper’s trademark piano lines cascading through spacious beats and leaving trails of reverb. For those who have followed this singular artist’s career to date, ‘Human’ will undoubtedly be a pleasure, and win over newcomers alike.