Album Of The Week: Bonobo – Fragments – Live4ever

Posted: January 17, 2022 at 8:52 am

Around about the same time last year, Bicep released their second album Isles in the midst of yet another lost-count lockdown.

Although their self-titled debut had been wall-to-wall bangers, its follow-up was more austere, subtly architected for consumption wherever the listener wanted it.

This conscious ambiguity reflected that dance music, for want of a better term, with its purpose of fueling shared joy and collective hedonism has been impacted more at an experiential level by events than almost any other kind; if you cant feel it in your ears, gut and brain, is it really there?

As Bonobo, Simon Green is a veteran with a catalogue going back over 20 years but whose understated success came in appealing to a diverse bunch of the movements often cliquey tribes; its critically evidenced by 3 Grammy nominations, commercially so by a Top 5 spot for 2017s Migration.

For some years an LA resident, hes declared Fragments the most emotionally intense record hes ever created, one he felt compelled to make.

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