This is a deceptive record. But a rather wonderful one. You might not imagine it's going to sound the way that it does looking at the cover. I'm so glad that it does sound exactly the way it does.
Nabihah Iqbal is something of a protean. A former student of Cambridge, she also studies at the bar and writes and broadcasts. That's all highly impressive but I wouldn't be posting about her if it wasn't for her second album DREAMER, one of the strangest and most original sounding records I've heard all year.
Iqbal is clearly someone who takes her time. DREAMER is her follow up to a record that came out in 2017. She obviously doesn't want to be pigeon holed, and has a fair bit going on in her life. On the surface, this is a record that owes something to Slowdive and Lush, not that there's anything wrong with that.
There's something feather light and comforting about this guitar sound here which Robin Guthrie is responsible for more than anyone else. Anyhow, it's only the underpinning rockbed for the considerable immersion in sound, mood and sensation served up on here.
The record spends a fair bit of its time on some kind of dancefloor, powered by electronic beats and sinuous rhythms and found, poetic vocals . Conjuring up the most fantastic dreamworld to immerse yourself in over the course of its 45 minute run, it's a sumptuous and elusive album that urges you to return and get to know it better. ..
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