Listen To This!

Out of the ashes (well, not really ashes) of the Bristol music scene, which gave us that remarkable brand of trip-hop through groups such as Portishead, Tricky and Massive Attack, comes this offering from Malakai. Lead single, Faded World, is filled with woozy, swirly piano parts and distant deck-scratching. There’s also a remarkable feeling the music is haunted by the echoes of the Beatles – not in any derivative way, but somehow through the vocals and phase there is a very real twist of Lennon. This record is well worth a look if you like any of the Bristol scene, or indeed if you like intelligently unusual music at all.