“Sinister and grandiose, hectic and bucolic, Norfolk producer Luke Abbott’s third album accretes big sense impressions from some wildly disparate sources. Somehow in Translate, his first solo artist album in six years and third overall, you find echoes of Boards of Canada and Dario Argento horror film soundtracks, of the beatific glide of Kraftwerk and the cold beauty of systems music: all this and”
“It’s been six years since Luke Abbott’s last solo release: the weird and wonderful Wysing Forest, a project which showed the Norwich-based experimental musician and composer at his most abstract. Having spent the best part of the past decade focusing on collaborative work, be it soundtracks (for 2014’s The Goob and Jessica Hynes’ project The Flight), or as part of the electronic jazz group Szun Wa”
“On his first album in six years, the UK producer spins freeform modular-synth improvisations into shaggily hypnotic psychedelia.”
