“We’re at a point where it’d almost be disappointing if Jon Hopkins‘ latest work wasn’t built around a higher concept. Over the last twenty three years, his obsession with sound has been academic, technical, classical, exploratory and experimental. It’s taken him from all-consuming studio sessions to Ketamine trips in Amazonian caves to becoming an unassuming poster boy for a growing techno-chemica”
“Jon Hopkins' music is filled with empathy and compassion, even if it often (consciously) struggles with maintaining composure. It is conceptual and complex, yet also astonishingly simple at times, and this juxtaposition is what inevitably draws other artists (most notably Eno, Coldplay and David Holmes) into his orbit. In 2021, he released Music for Psychedelic Therapy, an ambient album designed t”
“Following LPs for ketamine therapy and chemical voyages, the UK producer’s latest record stems from his soundtrack for a stroboscopic psychedelic gizmo. It’s his most single-mindedly epic LP.”
“No one could claim that Jon Hopkins has undersold his seventh album. The 45-year-old electronic producer, soundtrack composer and sometime collaborator with Brian Eno and Coldplay has described the music on Ritual as “a tool … for opening portals within your inner world”, and stated: “It doesn’t feel like an album therefore: more a process to go through, something that works on you.” Perhaps that”
