Bleep

With a name change comes a new angle: Fergus Jones (FKA Perko) turns down a collaborative route for his debut album with Numbers. There’s the familiar stuff from Jones: skipping stone reverb across puddles of dub beats on ‘Can’t Touch’, the morphing, clanging bells and tailspinning bass spirals on Huerco S. assisted ‘Heima’, which James K’s susurrations breathe life into. Then there’s ‘Tight Knit’, where Jones melds effortlessly with murky trap adjacent rhythms, quivering low frequencies matching the tension of Bristolian collective Cold Light’s lyricism. This variety bubbles all over Ephemera, switching from crisp clacking percussion to prickly rainfall ambience and Koreless’s signature touch of warm, mottled synths.