Floating Points

Cascade

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• 01 Vocoder (club mix)
• 02 Key103
• 03 Birth4000
• 04 Del Oro
• 05 Fast Forward
• 06 Ocotillo
• 07 Afflecks Palace
• 08 Tilt Shift - Ablaze

Cascade is an eruption of unfinished business. In late 2022, Shepherd - renowned for drifting between genres as freely as his stage name implies - found himself in the Californian desert working on something new. Many took inspiration from the dust bowl surroundings off the Californian desert, but make no mistake: Cascade is a record forged in an adolescence spent in Manchester, discovering the mind-expanding (and emotion-purging) power of electronic music in all its forms. Though devised as a continuation of Crush, Cascade nonetheless pushes Floating Points' sound forward into new places. The nine songs here are allowed to smoulder and spark for up to eight minutes at a time, allowing for more expansive exploration of sounds and grooves than before. Almost a decade on since Elaenia, his revered debut album, the composer has discovered ways to thread his experiments outside of club music seamlessly into his music designed for the dancefloor.