Coco Bryce - City PopAt age 18, after flunking all but two classes, Coco Bryce (ne Yoel Yair) attempted to take a sabbatical from uni. What was supposed to have been a mere twelve month orientational period turned into two and a half decades of hard graft, culminating in this here album: City Pop. The results are stunning, tho that's hardly surprising given the fact it took nearly a quarter of a century to finish.

Softie contrasts vast dubtechno chords with a bone-dry woodblock beat and nimble microhouse edits

poetic lyricism

and for “More Reasons Than One”

The B-side opens with 'Never Ending Story'

The iconic

And for the Lucumi

'Tsukiyo' is a new age charmer with paddy hand drums and romantic interplay between sax and trumpet

and Alexander Bourt on the new release

Mansur Brown) and recorded in under a week

the eight songs that make up the album draw on a vocabulary composed of fragmentary images

he has been for some time in fact

Near-replica reissue of the prized