Higher Powers

New album from Inga Copeland who I’m hoping you’re aware of via the cult group Hype Williams which she was in with Dean Blunt. A modern muse of mythical status, Inga’s smeared synth-pop musings and radioactive downbeat exercises have become highly treasured amongst underground aficionados, reddit forum users and NTS listeners alike
Stylistically it exists in that liminal / hypnogogic space between reality and dream world, with melancholic undertones reflecting, unfortunately, the current mood of our fractured country. With songs resembling traditional structures soon dissipating into the ether or crumbling into fried motherboards it draws comparisons with the recent Bar Italia album in terms of construction if not stylistic content. Her deliberately-almost-broken voice compliments the sorrowful machine music beautifully – the perfect ballad to soundtrack the end of humanity
Her ‘first and last’ album, which has previously only been released digitally, gets a highly coveted vinyl edition here – if you’re reading this and its still in stock then lucky you – click that buy button or hurriedly scamper up to our counter with this in your hand – proud in the knowledge that you’ve snaffled a piece of modern electronic music treasure everyone’ll be fighting over in a couple of weeks