FELT proprietor Fergus Jones - fka Perko - flits to Glasgow dons Numbers to convect his debut album of drowsy downbeat sentiments graced by cameos from Laila Sakini, Huerco S., James K, ELDON & Withdrawn, Lia T, and Koreless.
Since 2022, from a HQ in Copenhagen, Fergus Jones has launched a raft of goodness on FELT by everyone from Civilistjävel! to Carrier, Mother and Princess Diana of Wales, not to mention shelling acclaimed DJ sets around the globe ‘Ephemera’ now distills his diffuse tastes in debut album form, deploying a soothing and rich vibe with a sort of romantic, nostalgic spirit that you might well associate with other Scottish artists from the golden days of ‘90s and ’00s electronica, such as BoC, Benbecula, and Ampoule, but with adeed heather-tinted gauziness and ambient curls.
Cooked with a concision and diversity of flavour that lingers on the mind, ‘Ephemera’ floats his ideas with a poetic subtlety that benefits from a judicious pick of collaborators. A kinship with leading ambient avatar Huerco S. blooms across two contrasting standouts, a mushily doe-eyed hook-up with James K, placing her ‘90s trip-hop vocal thizz on screwed dubstep in ‘Heima’, and lucent dub chord lullaby ‘It Should Be (Free)’ infused by Brian Leeds’ spangled ambient-dub melodies. That dub lean also prompts its central highlight of Rhythm & Sound-gone-pop in a pearlescent ‘Can’t Touch’ with Laila Sakini, bolstered by the shuffling-on-air elegance of ‘Stack’ and piquant electro-dub slink of ‘Heap’.
A promising, tactfully blissed return by one of the underground’s key, if liminal, hyper-connectors.
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Estimated Release Date: 18 October 2024
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FELT proprietor Fergus Jones - fka Perko - flits to Glasgow dons Numbers to convect his debut album of drowsy downbeat sentiments graced by cameos from Laila Sakini, Huerco S., James K, ELDON & Withdrawn, Lia T, and Koreless.
Since 2022, from a HQ in Copenhagen, Fergus Jones has launched a raft of goodness on FELT by everyone from Civilistjävel! to Carrier, Mother and Princess Diana of Wales, not to mention shelling acclaimed DJ sets around the globe ‘Ephemera’ now distills his diffuse tastes in debut album form, deploying a soothing and rich vibe with a sort of romantic, nostalgic spirit that you might well associate with other Scottish artists from the golden days of ‘90s and ’00s electronica, such as BoC, Benbecula, and Ampoule, but with adeed heather-tinted gauziness and ambient curls.
Cooked with a concision and diversity of flavour that lingers on the mind, ‘Ephemera’ floats his ideas with a poetic subtlety that benefits from a judicious pick of collaborators. A kinship with leading ambient avatar Huerco S. blooms across two contrasting standouts, a mushily doe-eyed hook-up with James K, placing her ‘90s trip-hop vocal thizz on screwed dubstep in ‘Heima’, and lucent dub chord lullaby ‘It Should Be (Free)’ infused by Brian Leeds’ spangled ambient-dub melodies. That dub lean also prompts its central highlight of Rhythm & Sound-gone-pop in a pearlescent ‘Can’t Touch’ with Laila Sakini, bolstered by the shuffling-on-air elegance of ‘Stack’ and piquant electro-dub slink of ‘Heap’.
A promising, tactfully blissed return by one of the underground’s key, if liminal, hyper-connectors.