Fjord Focus

Mesmeric orchestral manoeuvres made in Iceland and Devon, via Montevideo and Iran.

Tom Doyle

Damon Albarn ★★★★ The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows TRANSGRESSIVE. CD/DL/LP DAMON ALBARN insists that he doesn’t make solo albums, just ones with his name on the cover. In that sense, this still counts as his second, after the brilliant, slow-burning, mid-life reflections of 2014’s Everyday Robots - or possibly his third, if one includes the bolder, tricksier Elizabethan shapes of 2012 opera soundtrack Dr Dee. Whatever the tally, if for Albarn the former’s concept involved “empty club music” and the latter saw him testing his audience with his penchant for lutes and pump organs, The Nearer The Fountain… locates a satisfying midpoint somewhere between the two. In some ways, it marks the full realisation of the English pastoral strain of Albarn’s writing that can be traced…

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